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March 22 — april 4, 2013 • vol. 4 — No. 6

The BranchesResidents say they found a neighborhood for life

WheRe you live 2

Crossing overLocal lawmakers hurry

to meet legislative deadlines

CommuNiTy 4

Joyful voicesLocal clergy plan simple

Easter sermons

FaiTh 21

Jester writesFormer DeKalb school board member discusses troubles

CommeNTaRy 8

StandoutsThese students excel in

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From left, max marion, hudson Fletcher and Jake oliver, members of the dunwoody middle School baseball league, congratulate each other after beating Greater atlanta

Christian School, 10-6 on march 9 in dunwoody. more photos on page 23.

By Joe [email protected]

John Coleman sees the next year as “critical” for DeKalb Coun-ty’s schools.

Coleman is one of six people appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal on March 13 to hold seats on the DeKalb school board. Coleman and his fellow appointees replace board members Deal suspended from office after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, an accrediting agency, put the district’s accreditation on probation. The agency criticized the board for meddling improperly in school affairs and for financial mismanagement.


Debate over efforts to rewrite the city’s ethics complaint pro-cedures came to a sudden stop during the May 11 City Council meeting.

“The city ethics ordinance is too important to rush through this process,” Councilwoman Adrian Bonser told other council mem-bers about the proposed rewrite of the ethics ordinance. “We need to get this right.”

On Jan. 14, the council approved a 90-day moratorium on ac-ceptance of ethics complaints while the city worked out a new pro-

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Tochie Blad knows what attracted her to The Branches.

A big yard.“We already had friends — another

young family — who were living here,” she said. “They invited us to a party and their backyard. I loved their big back-

yard.”She wanted one of her own.So in 1995, she and her family moved

into a home on Hunters Branch Drive. One recent weekend afternoon, she sat on her back porch in the early spring sun and looked out over the big back-yard her family had filled with towering evergreens and with camellias that now flowered red or white. Out front, Lent-en roses bloomed.

She ticked off reasons she felt at home. “The location is perfect,” she said. Her husband’s office was only a mile away. Their church was nearby. Their children, now off at college, had gone to good neighborhood schools.

“You find your place,” she said. “You luck out and find everything. You’re lucky.”

The Branches isn’t a small place. Blad and other residents say the neigh-borhood, which straddles the line be-tween Dunwoody and Sandy Springs and DeKalb and Fulton counties, takes in something like 900 homes as it rolls from Mount Vernon Road to Spalding Drive and from nearly Chamblee Dun-woody to nearly Peachtree Dunwoody roads. About 700 homes are in the Dun-woody portion of the neighborhood, with the remaining 200 on the Sandy Springs side, Blad said.

Being in two different cities doesn’t seem to create political problems for the community. Residents are politically plugged in — Blad, for instance, is ac-tive with the Sandy Springs Council of Neighborhoods — and several said they rarely think about the division, except when school buses from two different districts drive through to drop off their charges.

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“People get lost all the time trying to go through from one side to another,” said Bill Grossman, who’s lived in The Branches since 1989. “I don’t know how many times I’ve given di-rections.”

Grossman, past presi-dent and current secretary of the Dunwoody Home-owners Association, and others describe the neigh-borhood as the kind of kid-centered community where a family’s social life can center on the commu-nity swim and tennis club.

“There are lots of so-cial events at the club,” said Lori Middleton, who lives on Trail Ridge Pass and whose children have com-peted in community swim-ming and baseball pro-grams. “In summer, you hang out by the pool.”

Middleton said she found her house through “sheer luck.” She grew up in metro Atlanta, she said, but her husband’s job took them abroad for a while. They lived in England and when they re-turned to the metro area eight years ago, “there were not a lot of houses on the market,” she said. “I would just drop the kids off at school and I drive around looking for houses.”

Eventually, she found a house that suited them and they moved in. The

community fit her family. People were friendly and there was plenty to do. “It’s

a very active neigh-borhood,” she said. “There’re a lot of kids our kids’ ages.”

Kevin and Amy Gorman, who live at the corner of Twin Branch Road

and Twin Branch Court, moved into the neighborhood a dozen years ago. They’ve become active in the local ele-mentary school, Woodland Elementa-ry, and say they have comfortably settled into the local community.

“The thing we love about The Branches is the way everybody helps ev-erybody,” Amy Gorman said as she took a brief break from spring yardwork. “Anything you need, you just have to ask somebody.”

Residents say that as the houses in The Branches reach their fourth and fifth decades, the community is grow-ing younger. Young families are buying houses from older residents whose chil-dren have grown up and moved on.

But not everyone is leaving. Middle-ton said only three families have moved onto her street since she found her house eight years ago. And both Grossman and Blad say they have no plans to leave.

“I always thought I would leave the big house behind once my kids gradu-ated,” Blad said. “I’m not, because my yard is like I want it.

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By melIssa WeInman [email protected]

The 2013 General Assembly has been a busy one for DeKalb and Fulton County legislators.

Each year, hundreds of bills are intro-duced, but only a few become law at the end of the 40 day legislative session.

Some have a good chance of mak-ing it to the governor’s desk, while others won’t make it out of committee.

Many of these bills met their end on Crossover Day March 7. For a bill to have a chance of becoming law, it must be approved in the Chamber where it was in-troduced by the 30th day of the session, known as Crossover Day, in order for it to cross into the oth-er chamber in enough time to be considered before the end of the session.

Metro Atlanta legislators tackled big issues this year, like the creation of new school systems, changes to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, and a revamp of Atlan-ta’s mass transit system.

As this year’s session draws to a close, we take a look at how some of the bills introduced by lawmakers from the Re-porter Newspapers’ communities fared.

HB 264: The purpose of this bill is to extensively revise the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Act of 1965.

Status: Senate read and referred on Feb. 22

Sponsors: This bill was introduced by Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven, chairman of the MAR-TA Oversight Committee. Other local sponsors in-clude Rep. Edward Lind-sey, R-Buckhead, Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody, and Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs.

HB 265: This bill re-peals provisions relating to the suspension of restric-tions on the use of annu-al proceeds from sales and use taxes by public transit authorities.

Status: Senate read and referred on Feb. 22

Sponsors: This bill was introduced by Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven, chair-man of the MARTA Oversight Com-mittee. Other local sponsors include Rep. Edward Lindsey, R-Buckhead, Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody, and Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs.

HR 486: This resolution proposes an amendment to the Georgia Constitution

that would authorize municipalities cre-ated on or after Jan. 1, 2005 to establish independent school systems. This reso-lution came in response to Dunwoody residents who want to break away from the DeKalb County School District in light of the system’s accreditation proba-

tion and other issues.Status: House Second

Readers Feb. 27Sponsors: This bill was

introduced by Rep. Tom Taylor, R-Dunwoody. Other local sponsors in-clude Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven and Rep. Joe Wilkinson, R-Sandy Springs.

HB 123: This bill, known as the “Parent and Teacher Empowerment Act” would give parents the right to pe-tition to convert existing schools into charter schools

or to impose turnaround models.Status: Senate read and referred

March 7.Sponsors: This bill was introduced by

Rep. Edward Lindsey, R-Buckhead.

SB 95: For counties with a chief ex-ecutive officer/county commission form of government, The CEO would be elected in a non-partisan race. Current-ly, DeKalb is the only county in the state with this form of government.

Status: Senate read second time Feb. 28

Sponsors: This bill was introduced by Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody

SB 189: This bill would permit proprietary institu-tions of higher education to participate in establish-ing college and career acad-emies in high schools.

Status: House second readers, March 12

Sponsors: This bill was sponsored by Sen. Fran Millar, R-Dunwoody.

SR 273: A resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the re-creation of a previously existing county which was merged into another county, subject to the approval of voters. This resolution is an attempt to recreate Milton County out of what is now north Fulton County.

Status: Senate read and referred Feb. 21

Sponsors: This bill was introduced by Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell. Other lo-cal sponsors include Sen. Judson Hill, R-Marietta.

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Dunwoody Green Market is changing locations.

The Green Market will open the 2013 season on April 17 in the parking lot at The Shops of Dunwoody, 5500 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road. Vendors will set up booths behind the Bank of North Georgia and across from Sun-shine Car Wash.

“We are happy to be back in our old neighborhood,” said Market President Paula Guilbeau, owner of Heirloom Gardens.

The Shops of Dunwoody site is near the Dunwoody Post Office in Dun-woody Village. The market operated in post office parking lot from 2009 until July of last year.

The site worked well for vendors be-cause people would come by with their dogs and strollers while they were out doing errands, Guilbeau said.

The market relocated to the Spruill Gallery for the last half of the 2012 sea-son because the post office needed the vendors’ space for parking due to the closing of the Shallowford Road postal facility and the relocation of those op-

erations to the Dunwoody Post Office.“We were very grateful for the oppor-

tunity to be at Spruill,” Guilbeau said. However, she pointed out that customer traffic dropped off by as much at 75 per-cent after the move. “Spruill was out of their pattern and they didn’t like driving that far,” she said of market customers.

“We felt like we had to do something to save the market,” she said. “Then the Simpson Organization reached out to us.”

Simpson is the owner and leasing management organization for the shops of Dunwoody.

The new location will be small-er than both the post office and Spruill sites. There will only be room for 20 to 25 vendor spaces at the Shops of Dun-woody location, Guilbeau said.

She said that she and the Market Board members will visit the site this weekend to begin figuring out exactly how many vendors the market will have when it opens for the 2013 season next month.

The market operates on Wednesdays from 8 a.m. until noon. The season will run until Nov.13.

Council struggling over ethics ordinance rewrite

cess for handling the complaints. On March 11, city staff members present-ed the council with a proposal for a new ordinance. City staff members based their draft on discussions council mem-bers held during informal meetings the previous month, City Manager Warren Hutmacher said in a memorandum.

“The revised ethics ordinance signif-icantly changes the process for the con-sideration of ethics complaints,” Hutm-acher wrote. “The list of offenses in the code has not changed.”

Under the proposed rules, complaints filed against the city manager, city attor-ney or city clerk would go directly to the City Council for consideration. Other complaints would be heard by the city’s ethics board, sitting as a “jury” during hearings run by a hearing officer.

The revised ordinance also says the city attorney would review complaints before they are sent to the board to make sure the complaints are “germane to the enumerated ethical violations in the ordinance,” Hutmacher’s memo said. “This will help to eliminate frivo-lous and politically charged ethics com-plaints,” he wrote.

Bonser indicated that she objected to a number of proposed changes. “There are so many things wrong with this ... ,”

she said. “This really concerns me. I am so angry right now.”

Council members decided to take a new look at the ethics ordinance after complaints last year required months of consideration and ended in negotiation.

Mayor Mike Davis and members of the council filed an ethics complaint against Bonser, accusing her of leak-ing information from a closed meeting about a city redevelopment project in the Georgetown community.

Bonser then filed a complaint against the mayor and other council members accusing them of holding an illegally closed meeting and failing to provide adequate public notice. She also filed a complaint accusing Davis of threatening her and asking her to leave office.

All the complaints eventually were dismissed. The city ethics board recom-mended that Davis and Bonser attempt to reach an agreement through media-tion.

On March 11, Bonser argued the proposed ordinance did not fit the terms of the mediation agreement. She said the council needed to appoint a com-mittee to develop the new ordinance. “This is a legal issue,” she said.

The ordinance is expected to be tak-en up again at the council’s meeting on April 1.

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“The next year is critical for accred-itation,” said Coleman, a 31-year-old Brookhaven resident with a Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. “Then, I think we need to address long-term issues.”

There are plenty of issues to address in DeKalb’s school system, the third largest in the state. While officials work to ad-dress SACS’ complaints and retain the system’s accreditation, groups of north DeKalb parents are discussing how to wrest control of their schools from the county. Meanwhile, some ousted board members are contesting their removal in court, saying Deal’s actions thwarted the desires of voters.

Former board Chairman Eugene Walker said in a statement released

March 18 that SACS created the percep-tion of many of the problems the sys-tem faces.

“SACS and its agents distorted the ac-tions of the school board and intentional-ly diminished the level of trust and con-fidence held by the constituents of the board members,” Walker said. “This was done through accusations, allegations and innuendos without providing proof or supporting documents. The SACS report was rife with unsubstantiated allegations and general statements with the intent of creating a false negative perception of the school board and facilitating a reason for probation.”

Coleman believes he and the newly ap-pointed board will be able to avoid losing the system’s accreditation, which parents fear could hamper high school graduates’

efforts to win scholarships and admission to some out-of-state colleges. “I have a high degree of confidence we will be able to address this [accreditation],” Coleman said.

“For me, the focus is to make sure we ad-dress many of the is-sues raised by SACS,” Coleman said. “I do think we can make a big difference.”

He’s confident, in part, because of the accomplishments of the people the gover-nor appointed to the board. “I can’t tell you how impressed I was when I saw the list of board members,” Coleman said. “It seems like an awesome group…. I do think it’s going to be a good group to try to address the issues.”

The list of new board members, cho-sen from more than 400 applicants for the jobs, includes a second person with an M.B.A., a Certified Public Accountant, a lawyer, a Ph.D. and a member with a masters degree in counseling education.

Coleman is not the only school official promising publicly that the district will not lose accreditation.

“Failure is not an option,” Interim schools Superintendent Michael Thur-mond told about 100 parents and local officials gathered at the Kingsley Swim and Racquet Club clubhouse on March 10 for a question-and-answer session sponsored by the Dunwoody Homeown-ers Association.

“The children did nothing wrong,” Thurmond said. “This is an adult mess and adults have to change it. … We will not return to the mistakes of the past.”

Thurmond said he intended to de-centralize some powers within the school system and to get the district’s financ-es under control. “We are going to put our fiscal house in order,” he said. “We’re moving in that direction, where we will be back in the black and not in the red.”

Distrcit 2 school board representative Marshall Orson said at a March 19 forum at Cross Keys High School in Brookhav-en that he believes Thurmond, the state’s former labor commissioner and a former state legislator, is the right man to help turn the ailing school system around.

“He’s well-respected regardless of your politics,” Orson said. “He’s a man of his word and he gets things done.”

Like Coleman, Orson is confident in the system’s new leadership. He told par-ents and teachers at Cross Keys High School that he thinks the system is “turn-ing a corner.”

Thurmond asked the Dunwoody par-ents to support efforts to change the sys-tem from within. But, in response to a question about efforts to create a new school district in the area, he said, “as a parent, you need to do what you believe is in the best interest of your child. If you believe creating a separate district in Dun-

woody is in the best interest of your chil-dren, I’d be the last” to oppose it.

Rep. Tom Taylor, a Dunwoody Repub-lican, introduced legislation that would

call for a constitution-al amendment to al-low cities created since 2005, including Dun-woody, to start their own school districts or to join other near-by cities to start school systems.

Members of Dun-woody City Coun-cil informally agreed March 11 to spend up to $50,000 to help finance a study of the feasibility of operat-ing a city school sys-

tem. The council is expected to vote on the expenditure during its April 1 meet-ing. “Time is of the essence,” Council-man Terry Nall said. “We need the study to be completed by October to be effec-tive in the Legislature.”

Taylor told council members that his bill has been assigned to the education committee in the state House of Rep-resentatives, so a feasibility study is not a requirement. But, he thought a study – similar to ones done during the pro-cess of starting new cities – would help him convince other lawmakers to ap-prove the bill. “I need to go down there with ammunition,” he said. “I need to go down there with a concise study.”

Taylor said the time required to win approval of the necessary legisla-tion meant a vote on the constitution-al amendment would not be held until next year. The earliest a new school sys-tem could be created, he said, would be in 2016.

Thurmond said he had been warned to expect a hostile crowd in Dunwoody. But several parents said he seemed will-ing to hear their concerns.

“I think I’ve heard it all before, but I’ll give him a chance,” said Allegra Johnson, president of the newly formed Dunwoody Parents Concerned about Quality Education. “If he wants me to give him opportunities, then he needs to give parents opportunities as well – op-portunities to help. It’s a two-way street. I’m encouraged, if he listens to our op-portunities.”

Coleman said he applied for an ap-pointment to the board because he saw the job as a way to make a difference in his community. “It’s a pretty critical point for DeKalb,” he said.

Asked whether the challenges facing the board gave him pause, he said he found his feelings about the job hard to describe. “I think the feeling is more of a sense of responsibility,” he said. “You want to make sure you do a good job. My goal is, over the next year and a half, that I can comport myself with the right amount of dignity that the focus be-comes on the kids and staff and not on me.”

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Here, listed by district, are the people Gov. Nathan Deal appointed to the DeKalb County school board:

District 1, John ColemanColeman, who replaces Nancy Jester, is a strategic planning manager at Inves-

co. Previously, he held a variety of leadership roles at McKinsey & Company. He also serves on various nonprofit boards. Coleman has a master’s in business ad-ministration from Harvard and a master’s in public administration from the Har-vard Kennedy School. He resides in Atlanta.

District 3, Michael ErwinA U.S. Navy veteran who has been a research assistant at Duke University

Medical Center and the University of South Carolina, Erwin has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Services and is past chair of the NOAA fisheries committees on fish species and fish diseases in Maine and South Carolina. In 2008, he earned a Ph.D. in Biological Science from the University of South Carolina. He has been a member of the faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College since 2009. He graduated from North Carolina Central Uni-versity with a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in biological science. Erwin re-sides in Decatur.

District 5, David Campbell Campbell is a senior manager with Georgia Power Co., where he supports

the company’s energy conservation efforts. He is a certified public accountant. Campbell received a degree in Business Administration from Albany State Uni-versity. He is a former chair of Leadership DeKalb, a member of the DeKalb 100 Black Men and an active member of St. Phillips AME. He formerly served on the Stephenson High School Council and resides in Lithonia.

District 7, Joyce MorleyMorley is the chief executive officer of Morley and Associates and is a pub-

lic speaker and trainer. She is a certified counselor, a trained mediator and serves on several local and national governance boards. Morley has a doctorate in coun-seling, family and work life from the University of Rochester. She received her specialist’s and master’s degrees in counseling education from the State Universi-ty New York College at Brockport, and a bachelor’s degree in elementary educa-tion from the SUNY College at Genesco. A Stone Mountain resident, Morley has lived in DeKalb County for more than 22 years.

District 8, Karen Carter Carter serves on the faculty of Georgia Perimeter. She received a bachelor’s de-

gree in speech communications from Denison University and a law degree from Ohio State University. Carter has served as a classroom teacher and has held sev-eral senior administrative roles in the field of education. She is a graduate of Leadership DeKalb and is an active community volunteer and a PTSA member. Carter is a resident of the Lakeside Community.

District 9, Thaddeus MayfieldMayfield is a senior partner with FOCOM, Inc., a Georgia-based business de-

velopment firm. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Mer-cer University and received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Tougaloo College. He co-chaired the successful Friends of DeKalb Education SPLOST IV Campaign and is an active member of several business and civic organizations in the metropolitan area. Mayfield is a resident of Lithonia.

Source: governor’s office

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Pursuant to a recommendation from the State Board of Ed-ucation, the Governor suspended the DeKalb Board of Edu-cation and appointed new board members.

These events were triggered by the district’s accreditation being downgraded to the status of “probation” by AdvancED, the parent company of the regional accreditor, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), and Senate Bill 84 that was passed in 2010.

As I told the State Board, I believe DeKalb has three defi-cits: credibility, academic and financial.

Shortly after coming onto the board in January 2011, I de-termined that budgeting practices were flawed.

I publicly discussed my concerns at every stated board meeting during the financial report. I gave spreadsheets to fellow board members and officials to show them the grow-ing financial problem. Until the most recent SACS report, in December 2012, the accreditor (SACS) never mentioned the financial problems. I am the first to discover and state these problems publicly.

In my email newsletter of May 20, 2012, I stated: “For the past year, I have publicly inquired about, and expressed my frustration with, many line items that were significantly over budget. Their consistent variances from the budget suggest-ed that these items were not properly budgeted for years. Still other discretionary items were also over budget because of a lack of fiscal restraint.

“These factors, along with a $15 million increase in bene-fit costs from the state and falling property tax revenue, have resulted in [the DeKalb school district] starting the budgeting process assuming a $73.8 million budget deficit.” I also stated that the budget was “a document based on deception.”

The SACS report contains my research regarding the bud-get. Anyone can access my blog and see the research I’ve post-ed. There are a number of other financial concerns that I have noted but were not touched upon in the SACS report.

What we have seen with the budget is a symptom of the larger problem: DeKalb has not invested in the classroom.

In November 2012, I published a blog that showed from FY2008-2013, every salary category declined except “General Administration.” These salaries increased over 14 percent. The budgeting practices have led to the academic and credibility deficits. Parents and teachers see increased class size, more fur-lough days and fewer resources. These developments seem in-congruent with having the highest millage rate in the metro

area, at 23.98 mils. This, along with the opacity of

the district and burdensome, often punitive, centralized bureaucratic decision-making, have created the credibility deficit that the district faces.

Our academic deficit is the re-sult of the financial and credibili-ty deficits. The district lost its focus on the classroom. You can see the evidence of this in the drivers of the financial and credibility deficits.

Now that AdvancED and the state have recognized what many of us have seen for years, will the sys-tem be able to heal itself? Only time will tell. I certainly hope so.

I was one vote on a board that did not, as a whole, want to change things. Will the new board, state and AdvancED be able to move the district in the right direction?

Replacing the board was one step, but it is the adminis-tration that has operational control. This insular group has shown little appetite for adjusting their methods.

The administration is the driver, while the board is the map. Are the drivers going to stay on the road map? What type of vehicle will they put the district in? Will it be the same vehicle for every school regardless of their needs or accom-plishments? Will the administration continue to get the larg-est luxury vehicle?

I will be writing a series on changes that Georgia must em-brace if we are to make it out of the bottom third nationally on achievement measures. Stay tuned for those.

It was an honor to serve you on the board. I am happy knowing that my research illuminated the financial problems in our system. I look forward to continuing to serve you in different ways. As always, I remain an advocate for kids and taxpayers.

Nancy Jester was elected to represent District 1 on the DeKalb County School Board in 2010. She was one of six board members suspended on Feb. 25 by Gov. Nathan Deal. She subsequently re-signed from the board, saying she did not want to participate with other members in a legal fight against the suspensions.

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Joe EarlePeter Dunn has returned to Atlanta to work in the same hotel building as he did in the 1990s — except now the neighborhood has totally changed. He oversees the new 275-room Le Meridien hotel, the brand’s first foray into the Atlanta market. The owners have invested more than $20 million in renovations.

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For several years during the early 1990s, Peter Dunn worked at a high-rise hotel right across the street from Perimeter Mall. He left to manage ho-tels in other cities and returned recent-ly as general manager of a new ho-tel that also happens to be across the street from Perimeter Mall.

In fact, his new 275-room hotel, met-ro Atlanta’s first example of the Le Me-ridien hotel chain, is in the same build-ing as his earlier hotel, The Marque.

Le Meridien’s owners are spending $20 million to dress up and modernize the place, Dunn said.

They’ve re-skinned the building, added space to rooms, installed big beds and big TVs, he said. They also redecorated using brushed steel and dark colors and with stylized images of metro Atlanta and Hartsfield-Jack-son International Airport as artwork.

And, Dunn discovered recently, more than the name and look of the building have changed. The first time he went looking for his hotel, he drove

right past the entrance.Perimeter Center had changed, too.“I hadn’t been back to Dunwoody

since I left in 1996, just before the Olympics,” Dunn said. “I drove here and when I got off on Perimeter Center Drive, I couldn’t recognize anything.”

As the Perimeter area adds restau-rants, shops and office workers, its ho-tel business is changing, too.

The recent recession pinched busi-ness travel, the mainstay of Perimeter hotels, but local hoteliers and tourism promoters see signs indicating the ar-

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Brad Sturgeon, general manager of the Embassy Suites Atlanta-Perimeter Center and former head of the board of directors of the Convention and Vis-itors Bureau of Dunwoody.

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A Von Maur brings to Perimeter Mall a long tradition of luxury and class to the center.

The department store offers shoppers at Perime-ter Mall another luxury shopping option that is not available at any other center in Atlanta, other than North Point Mall.

Q Are there new tenants inside the mall as well?

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Cloud 9 cupcakes (featured in Cupcake Wars on Food Network — opened in March 2013), Call It Spring men’s and women’s footwear and acces-sories (spring 2013), H&M (summer 2013), Vans skateboard-inspired apparel and gear (spring 2013).

Q What are the advantages of periodically changing the mall’s tenants?

A Changing the retailer mix allows Perimeter

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Q What are some of the challenges that shop-ping malls face?

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just in Atlanta alone is astounding. There are dif-ferent shopping options for the Atlanta consum-er, from shopping malls, shopping strips, and outlet malls. Each center is different in their ten-ant mix, entertainment and services offered. The oversaturation of shopping centers in Atlanta makes the market very competitive with each center trying to appeal to the consumer. That is why you have many centers that undergo a re-model or expansion every few years to continue to maintain the interest of the shoppers.

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At the entrance to the ballroom of Villa Chris-tina, Arthur Freeman beamed as he looked across the room at the nearly 200 people chat-ting, sipping wine and eating hors d’oeuvres as a bright, early spring sun set behind the windows.

“You hear that?” he asked. “That’s buzz.”

Freeman, the exec-utive director of the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce, was pleased by the turn-out at the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural reception on March 14.

Community leaders, business people and elected officials from Brookhaven, Dunwoody, DeKalb County and a few state legislators gathered to celebrate the organiza-tion’s official debut.

“I think of it as a debutante ball, our coming-out party,” Freeman said.

Freeman hopes to keep that buzz going as the organization looks for members and starts new programs and initiatives in the community.

The chamber, which has signed up nearly 40 members so far, already has a host of programs and events planned for its first year.

Freeman said the chamber has plans for a “listen and learn educa-tional series,” monthly networking events, speakers every two months, a “chairman’s circle luncheon” for business leaders and city offi-cials to talk about issues, two yearly galas and six general membership meetings. “Not bad for nine weeks,” Freeman said of the young organiza-tion’s progress.

About three months ago, the cham-ber evolved from the Brookhaven Community Connection, a network-ing group for Brookhaven business people. Freeman said the chamber had the advantage of building on its groundwork.

“My board of directors that I came out of the gate with in December was the board of directors from the Brookhaven Community Connec-tion,” Freeman said. “That’s one of the reasons we’ve been able to do it. It looks like it’s only been nine weeks, but the reality is, it’s been four years.”

Like the BCC, the chamber of com-merce will not be limited to for-profit businesses. Freeman said civic associ-ations and religious groups are invit-

ed to join, as well.While Freeman realizes that busi-

nesses may have inherently different interests than homeowners groups at times, he sees the chamber as an orga-nization that can help solve conflicts.

“That’s one of the reasons I want them at the table — so you can have a neutral place to work these issues out,” Freeman said.

The Brookhaven Chamber of Com-merce will be joining what is already a thriving business community in the Perimeter area. The Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, the Dunwoody Chamber of Com-merce, the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce and the Perimeter Busi-ness Association are all within just a few miles of each other.

Tom Mahaffey, executive direc-tor of the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, said he sees the addition of the Brookhaven cham-ber as beneficial for the region.

“I don’t think it’s a bad thing at all. We’re a close community and region, and we work together as a region,” Mahaffey said. “Sandy Springs and Dunwoody have been very connect-ed since the inception of both cham-bers. I don’t see why Brookhaven would not join with us.”

He doesn’t believe a new cham-ber will be a threat to any of the ex-isting organizations. “I don’t think it’s going to affect our investors or mem-bership base. Each of us will have our own base of companies we will part-ner with,” Mahaffey said.

Joe DeVita, the founder of the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce, has also been helping the Brookhaven chamber get started. DeVita said the Brookhaven chamber will be able to work jointly on regional efforts with other chambers in the area.

“Economic development is some-thing you don’t do in a bubble. It’s a regional effort and it takes regional partners,” DeVita said.

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By Joe Earle

Technology busi-nesses have great-er economic impact on the state of Geor-gia than does Atlan-ta’s airport, the head of the Technology Association of Geor-gia told a group of Perimeter business and government leaders on March 15.

“We’re no lon-ger just peaches, pecans, pine trees, poultry and peanuts,” TAG President and Chief Executive Tino Mantella told the 100-plus people attending a luncheon sponsored by the Perimeter Business Alliance.

Mantella said technology busi-nesses account for about 17 percent of Georgia’s gross domestic prod-uct, with an economic impact on the state of about $113.1 billion a year. Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Interna-tional Airport, considered a major driver of the metro area’s economy, produces about $68 billion in eco-nomic impact, he said.

Mantella took part in a panel that included representatives of sever-al high-tech companies with oper-ations in the Perimeter area. Oth-er panelists were: David Dabbiere, chief operating officer of AirWatch, a mobile device security and man-agement software company; David A. Spotts, director of facilities and corporate services for AutoTrader.com; and Gerard White, chief exec-utive officer of Clearwave Corp., a health care technology company.

Panelists said they found metro Atlanta and the Perimeter area to be attractive places for high-tech com-panies and their employees.

“We think there’s no better place than Atlanta right now to build a technology company,” Dabbiere

said. High-tech companies bring to

Georgia employees who are young and well paid, the panelists said.

According to Mantella, the aver-age salary is about $81,000, twice the average for other jobs.

Some local high-tech companies report explosive growth.

AirWatch recently announced it was adding hundreds of jobs at its Sandy Springs headquarters. Dab-biere said AirWatch has been add-ing about 80 employees a month.

White said his company wants to attract “the best and brightest” em-ployees from across the country.

“We are recognized for being a great city to live in,” White said. “And the other thing is, when they get here, they rarely leave.”

One problem high-tech firms face in Georgia, Mantella said, is a lack of venture capital companies with roots in the state.

“There’s a real need for venture funding in this area,” he said. “There are only a handful of venture fund-ing [companies].”

Georgia companies, he said, col-lect only about 1 percent of the venture capital invested in a typi-cal year, compared with California, which collects about 52 percent.

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Mark and Soodi Kick opened their Brookhaven health food store in 1980 at the corner of Ashford Dunwoody and Peachtree roads.

The vegetarian couple had moved to Atlanta from Los Angeles and found the local health food market lacking.

Soodi said she had to drive 10 to 12 miles just “to buy food for my family.”

“Introducing what health food can do for you was a major part of our job back then,” Mark said.

More than 30 years later, their Nuts N’ Berries store thrives in a city where near-ly every supermarket of-fers up food with labels promising “raw,” “natural” or “organic” foods.

In order to keep Nuts N’ Berries’ bottom line healthy, the company had to become something more than a health food store.

The couple met in architecture school at Ohio University. They moved to Atlanta because it was “a more family-oriented place than L.A.,” Mark said. They’ve been mar-ried 42 years.

In 1992, the Kicks moved the Nuts N’ Berries store down Peachtree to its intersection with Kendrick Road.

The main section of the store sells a selection of produce and a bounty of nutritional supplements. It smells of crushed roasted peanuts, a by-product of a machine that makes fresh peanut butter.

Store manager Betsy Mylander said customers come from Ogletho-rpe University, DeKalb Peachtree Airport, an Audi dealership and the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention.

As the health food market evolved, the Kicks tweaked their business model. Today Nuts N’ Ber-ries functions as a personal wellness center. Soodi is a certified nutrition-ist.

The company leases space to the Brookhaven Bistro, a restaurant con-nected to the main store that offers healthy cuisine.

Brookhaven Bistro chef Chip Desormeaux said that, since he took over the restaurant in 2007, he’s worked to establish a menu for veg-etarians and their non-vegetarian friends.

“The thing that seems to help here is to hit a middle line with healthy food,” Desormeaux said.

It’s also a matter of econom-ics, Mark said. Catering only to one crowd would make the food more expensive.

On the second floor is a spa, Alef Skin Care and a company called Brainscapes which claims its brain-wave therapy can alleviate the symp-toms of a variety of mental and phys-ical afflictions.

Mark said he played to his com-pany’s strengths to stay competitive with big-box grocery stores.

He dropped dairy products and oriented the business around em-ployee knowledge, product variety

and customer service.He said the company of-

fers customers a person-al touch they might not be able to find elsewhere.

“If a customer comes in, they will get a much high-

er ratio of employee attention to their concerns,” Mark said.

Mark and Soodi intended to re-tire from the business a decade ago. In 2002, they sold it to a businessman from Japan.

Eventually, the new owner moved back to Japan and attempted to oper-ate the company from afar. Sales be-gan to decline.

The couple bought the business back a year ago.

Mark said he’s worked to rebuild the store’s brand and reestablish re-lationships with customers.

He said he’s making progress. “We’re seeing our customer count

go up,” Mark said. The personal side of being healthy

is what keeps the Kicks motivated. Mark said he enjoys the feedback

from customers who have shopped at the store for years.

“We’re really looking out for the prosperity of Brookhaven,” Mark said.

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Brad Sturgeon, general manager of the Embassy Suites Atlanta-Perimeter Center, believes the Perimeter market will continue to improve. He also manages a Buckhead hotel and says the markets ‘have become increasingly blended.’

New hotels proposed in the Perimeter Center areaDunwoody: A mixed-used development including a 134-room, eight-story Hampton Inn and Suites hotel, restaurants and shops is proposed on about 11.5 acres at the northeast corner of Ashford Dunwoody Road and Perimeter Center North. The proposal won approval March 14 from Dunwoody’s Community Council.

Brookhaven: GE Asset Management, Seven Oaks Company and Legacy Property Group want to build a 173-room Hyatt next to the Villa Christina Restaurant and Conference Center near Ashford Dunwoody Road.

Sandy Springs: Hines Interests Limited Partners on March 6 filed plans for a development called 100 Northpark that would include 1.5 million square feet of office space, 150,000 square feet of retail, 500 multi-family units and a 250-room hotel. In 2008, Orlando, Fla.-based Kessler Collection Hotels proposed a 275-room Bohemian Hotel near Abernathy Road and Ga. 400. Sandy Springs City Council on March 19 approved an extension of the developer’s land disturbance permit.

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percent to 67 percent, PFK reported.

Sturgeon says he won’t be surprised if Perime-ter Center someday tops Buckhead and other met-ro areas on the revpar lists.

As manager of the Em-bassy Suites in Buckhead and in Perimeter, he gets a first-hand view of both markets.

“These markets have become increasingly blended,” Sturgeon said. “It’s like of lot of things going on in the north met-ro area. It’s becoming the center of affluence and the center of influence.”

As customers return, hotel devel-opers are showing a renewed interest in the Perimeter area, too.

After about a decade with no new full-service hotel built in the area, developers are talking to local cit-ies about at least four new hotels — two in Sandy Springs and one each in Dunwoody and Brookhaven.

“We are big believers in Dun-woody and the Perimeter market. … We have proximity to Perimeter Mall, which gets 18½ million visitors, and we’re in the middle of the biggest [of-fice] submarket in the South,” said Steve Smith of IRE Capital of Buck-head, part of a development company proposing to build a new Hampton Inn Suites as part of a development in Dunwoody.

Katie Bishop, executive director of Dunwoody’s convention and vis-itor’s bureau, sees the development of new hotels as an extension of the growth of the Perim-eter retail and office markets.

“Pe-rimeter and Dun-woody and Sandy Springs over-all have seen tre-mendous growth in business-es locat-ing here. … There’s a lot going on in the mar-ket, a lot of positive change,” Bishop said. “New hotels are a natural part of that growth.”

From Sandy Springs, which has more than three times as many hotels as Dunwoody, the view is different.

When Kym Hughes, executive di-rector of Sandy Springs Hospitali-

ty and Tourism, arrived in the city in 2007, Sandy Springs boasted 21 ho-tels. Since then, two have closed and one was converted to student hous-ing, she said.

“Our occupancy has been sol-id for a long time. Our hotels do a fabulous job of being competitive,” Hughes said. “Right now, we’re see-ing a change. We lost two properties and we’ve gained [the prospect] of two properties.”

Hughes argues the hotel develop-ment market reflects a new availabil-ity of investment money as the reces-sion ends.

“It’s really a matter of getting fi-nancing,” Hughes said. “Hotels can-not build without financing. That’s simple math. We’re just coming out of a period when there was not a lot of financing. There’s a better opportuni-ty for financing now than there was in the last couple of years. I would say that’s why you see the change.”

At Le Meridien, Dunn sees other changes, as well. Back 18 years ago,

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Park Revitalization Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. – Join oth-ers in revitalizing Brookhaven’s most improved park! DeKalb County will provide equipment and per-sonnel to aid The Friends of Briarwood Park. Plans include building out the perimeter trail, beautify-ing the old growth forest, and creating natural en-try ways to the new playground. Free. Everyone is welcome. Meet at Briarwood Park and Rec Cen-ter, 2235 Briarwood Way, NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Email: [email protected] with questions or visit: http://briarwoodparkga.org.

Holocaust ObservanceSunday, April 7, 4-6 p.m. – The entire com-munity is invited to a Yom HaShoah Commemo-ration sponsored by the Atlanta Rabbinical Associ-ation and the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta. Dr. Jerome Legge, a Holocaust schol-ar and Associate Dean of UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, will speak. Ceremony in-cludes lighting of torches and special music. Free. Rain or shine. MJCCA at Zaban Park, Besser Holo-caust Memorial Garden, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dun-woody, 30338. For more information email Rabbi Brian Glusman: [email protected] or visit: www.atlantajcc.org.

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Civil Rights Lecture Wednesday, March 27, 7 p.m. – Morghan Brandon, an Oglethorpe University student, marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech by exploring the hopes and dreams of the Civil Rights movement and the real-ities of where African Americans are today. Talk ac-companies her independent film/performance proj-ect. Free admission for OUMA members or with a Petrel Pass; general admission, $5. For more in-formation, call 404-364-8555 or visit: http://mu-seum.oglethorpe.edu. Oglethorpe University, 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Third Floor, Weltner Library, Brookhaven, 30319.

Starting a Nonprofit Saturday, April 6, 3-4 p.m. – Participants learn about the seven essentials all nonprofit busi-ness owners must know to ensure the success of their organization. This is a basic class for anyone interested in starting a nonprofit business as well as those who can use additional insight into grow-ing their organization. Free. For those 18 years and older. Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-512-4640 for details.

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Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m. – Wieuca Road Baptist Church invites the community to its 17th annual Easter Egg Hunt, on the playfield. Free. Lots of hidden eggs, pony rides, face painting, petting zoo, giant slide, moonwalk and obstacle course. Mu-sic, giveaways. Babies-2 years old can hunt for eggs at 10:30 a.m.; three and four year olds, 11 a.m.; five through seven years old, 11:30 a.m.; eight to twelve year olds, 12 p.m. For more information email Joel Mills: [email protected] or call 404-814-4467. 3626 Peachtree Rd., Atlanta, 30326. www.wieuca.org/activities.

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Dr. Seuss Stories Tuesday, March 26, 10:15 a.m. – Chil-dren celebrate Dr. Suess’ birthday (and meet Cat-in-the-Hat) in three sto-rytime sessions: toddlers age 1 at 10:15 a.m.; tod-dlers age 2 at 11 a.m.; preschoolers ages 3-5 at 11:45 a.m. Free and open to all. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email:

[email protected] or call 404-814-3500 for additional details.

Book Cover Workshop & ContestSaturday, March 30, 4-6 p.m. – Judge a book by its cover in this workshop done in part-nership with the Aber-nathy Arts Center. Teens explore the work in-volved in designing book covers that attract the eye and inspire the imagination. For middle and high school youth. Registration required. Free and open to the public. Email: [email protected] or call 404-303-6130 to sign up or with questions. Sandy Springs Branch Library, in the Meeting Room, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Monday, April 1, 10 a.m. – In partner-ship with Sandy Springs Reads, youth in middle and high school are invited to redesign the cov-er of To Kill a Mockingbird. Cash prizes award-ed to the winners. Free to enter, and open to all. Submission deadline is Monday, April 22, 6 p.m. Call 404-303-6130, email: [email protected] or stop by the library branch for more details. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Children’s Day DisplayMonday, April 1, 10 a.m. – Throughout April, children ages 5-12 will enjoy special artifacts and puppets in the Buckhead Public Library dis-play case, plus discover special book displays rep-resenting Hispanic culture and literature. These ex-hibits celebrate “El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day). Free and open to all. 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: [email protected] or call 404-814-3500 for information.

Butterfly PuppetsTuesday, April 2, 10:30 a.m. – Picca-dilly Puppets presents a show about the meta-morphosis from caterpillar to butterfly in a spe-cial spring break program. Appropriate for ages 2-6. Free and open to the public. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. To learn more, call 404-303-6130.

Lego RoboticsWednesday, April 3, 10:30 a.m. – Mary Roberts teaches kids about robots using Lego Mind-storm robotics. Mary is a coordinator for the First Lego League, a robotics program designed to get children excited about science and technology. Hands-on workshop at 10:30 a.m. for ages 7-9; sec-ond workshop, at 12:30 p.m., for ages 10-14. Free and open to all. Space is limited. Sign-up required and started March 1st. Call 404-303-6130, email: [email protected] or swing by the library to register or to ask questions. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, San-dy Springs, 30328.

Beaded ButterfliesThursday, April 4, 10:30 a.m. – Ms. Duffy shows you how to celebrate spring with beaded butterflies. Appropriate for ages 7-11. Free and open to the public. Sign-up is required and start-ed March 1st. Space is limited. Come by, call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] to register or to seek additional de-tails. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Cat Clans

Saturday, April 6, 2:30-3:30 p.m. – Chil-dren ages 6 and up can come play the board game based on the Warriors book series about the Cat Clans, written by Erin Hunter. See which cat reaches the moonstone first! Prizes awarded. Seat-ing is limited and registration is required; call the library at 404-814-3500 in advance to regis-ter. Free and open to the community. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlan-ta, 30305. Email: [email protected] to find out more.

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Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. – All are invited to attend Apostles Church of Sandy Springs annual community Easter Egg Hunt! Games, face painting, food, and of course, an Easter Egg Hunt for children ages toddler through 12 years. Free. Rain or shine. For more details, contact Bob Morton: [email protected] or call the church: 404-255-8668. 6025 Glenridge Dr., NE, Sandy Springs, 30328. www.apostlessandysprings.org.

Saturday, March 30, 2 p.m. – Skyland Church hosts an Easter Egg Hunt for children through 6th grade on the church grounds. Each child should bring a basket to collect goodies. Free and open to the community. Refreshments, face painting, and fun for the adults, too! Call 404-634-6209 or email: margie¬morgan@¬bellsouth.¬net to learn more. Skyland United Methodist Church, 1850 Skyland Terrace, NE, Brookhaven, 30319. http://skylan-dumc.org.

Sunday, March 31, 9:30 a.m. – Easter ser-vice at Covenant Presbyterian Church begins at 9:30 a.m. with breakfast, followed by an egg hunt at 10:15 a.m. for children age 4 through elementa-ry school. Worship service at 11 a.m. Breakfast in-cludes hot sausages, biscuits, fresh fruit, pastries, beverages. Adults, $5; $3 for children under 12. The Easter Egg Hunt is free, and the event is open to the community. Call 404-237-0363 or go to: www.covenantpresbyterian.us to find out more. Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2461 Peachtree Rd., NE, At-lanta, 30305.

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“I absolutely feel the nature and the earth these artists bring out in their pieces,” said Linda King of Brookhaven. “It is soothing and grounding, but it also leaves you with a longing to find that place in your soul where you could be really connected.”

Curated by Buckhead resident Tania Becker, “Formations: Patterns in Nature” includes works by six Georgia artists — Kate Colpitts, Jeannine Cook, Helen DeRamus, Barbara Rehg, Gerry Sattele and Mona Water-house — who belong to Women Caucus for Art, a nonprofit organiza-tion devoted to women’s artistic development. The exhibit is on display through April 13.

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One of Waterhouse’s mixed-media pieces, “Unfolding: Women’s Work,” intrigued Temme Barkin-Leeds of Buckhead.

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She emphasized that “everything is connected through a network, whether in nature or in life.”

Waterhouse’s appreciation for her roots resonated with King, who said she fondly recalls her grandmother sew-ing quilts, making her own jelly and de-veloping friendships with other neigh-bors in the Appalachian Mountains. “The joy derived from the community of women getting together to do some of the work in fellowship was invalu-able,” she said.

Consistent with the underpinning theme of the exhibition — connecting with the past through nature — Cook’s work shows her expertise in silverpoint, a painstaking medieval drawing tech-nique dating back to the 8th century.

DeRamus specializes in encaustic, a painting process dating to the 4th cen-tury B.C., in which pigments are fused with wax. DeRamus likes to immerse herself in her paintings and said she ex-periences encaustic as a “form of medi-tation about the passage of time.”

In a hurried world saturated with technology, the artists in this exhibit are seeking to touch upon a more intro-spective way of life.

“I have learned acceptance and the art of staying in the moment, as the re-sult of working with this medium,” De-Ramus said.

‘Formations: Patterns in Nature’Where: Spruill Gallery4681 Ashford Dunwoody Rd. N.E., Atlanta, GA. 30338Phone: 770-394-4019When: Now through April 13. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 11:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Closed on Sunday.Admission/Parking: Free

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Mona Waterhouse, left, and Linda King, right, discuss one of Waterhouse’s works

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Maundy Thursday, March 28Communion Service: 7:00 p.m. | Mark Crumpler

Community Good Friday, March 2912:00 Noon | Sanctuary Services | Vic Pentz

Easter Egg Hunt, March 30Chastain Park Playground: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Easter Sunday, March 31Sanctuary Services: 8:45, 10:00, 11:15 a.m. | Vic PentzSummit Services: 8:45, 11:15 a.m. | The Lodge | Bryan Dunagan

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Good Friday, March 297:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m.

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Local clergy to deliver straightforward sermons this EasterBy daN WhiseNhuNt

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The New Testament says Jesus Christ died for the sins of mankind and rose three days later. Some local clergy say their Easter sermons won’t need to say much more than that.

Christians celebrate resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sun-day, which falls this year on March 31. The res-urrection is the founda-tion of Christian belief, and its celebration of-ten draws congregations filled with more than the usual number of guests, nonmembers and infre-quent churchgoers. For families gathering from out of town, a highlight is the collective trek to an Easter service.

At Calvary Assembly of God, the Rev. Brian Campbell said he wants to make sure his sermon doesn’t upstage his Dunwoody church’s musical cele-bration.

“Easter, you know, for us, that’s like the Super Bowl of the church,” Camp-bell said. “Our whole basis of and the foundation and core value of what we believe is rooted in the resurrection,

so the focus of the mes-sage and the focus of the day is just a huge cele-bration.”

Camp-bell said his message will be “stream-lined” and his preach-ing style “practical.”

Parishio-ners at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Sandy Springs can expect a similar-ly straightforward theme.

“I have creatively entitled my ser-mon ‘The Easter Sermon,’” the Rev. Aaron Menikoff said. “I keep the

same title every year, and I’m preach-ing from Mark, chapter 16, verses 1-8, simply a verse-by-verse description of that text focusing on the resurrection.”

Menikoff said it’s important to re-member that the message might be going out to people who aren’t regu-lar churchgoers.

“I’m aware there may be in-dividuals who may not be ad-herents, tru-ly,” he said. “They may be coming out of ob-ligation. I don’t feel any pres-sure, but I do want to

be clear about the essentials of the Christian faith.”

The Rev. Jim Duffy of Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Brookhaven said Catholics are cel-ebrating a little early this year. The

Catholic Church has selected an Ar-gentinian, the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has taken the name Pope Francis, to succeed Pope Bene-dict XVI, who resigned in February.

“From our perspective, with the election of our new pope, I maintain Easter has come early, bringing hope

and new expectations and joy to our church,” Duffy said.

He said his sermon will focus on “hope.”

“The Paschal candle, the big candle we light on Saturday night, which enters the church, the candle shatters the dark-ness and brings light and hope,” Duffy said. “We are the Paschal candle. We are baptized in Jesus and we are the hope of our world. When we en-

ter the room, we are to illuminate and dispel despair and darkness and bring light and hope.”

The Rev. David Michael at Faith Cornerstone Church in Brookhav-

The Rev. Jim Duffy The Rev. Aaron Menikoff

The Rev. Brian Campbell

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“We’re going to talk about Jesus and ‘He is risen’ and you’ve been forgiven and your sins are no more,” Michael said. “That’s ba-sically it.”

The Rev. Brad Miller at Brookhav-en Christian Church said the challenge of the Easter sermon is to make it sound fresh. As a practical mat-ter, it’s a story Christians hear often.

“My thought has been to make it as straightforward as possible,” Miller said. “This is the day we cel-

ebrate, that all that the things that were promised came to pass. There’s not a need for anything to grab peo-ple’s attention. You just tell them the story.”

Dr. Mi-chael Youssef at Church of the Apostles in Buckhead said the story is well known, but Christiani-ty wouldn’t hold up without it.

“The only reason I know the moment I close my eyes in death that I will be in Heav-en with Jesus is because of that

resurrection,” he said. “That assur-ance would not be at all possible without the resurrection.”

Seder traditionFollowing Passover Seder tradition, Epstein School seventh-grader

Adam Sturisky, right, places a piece of unleavened bread in a bag to hide for the end of the meal. The matzo is known as the afikomen, which is symbolic of future redemption. From left,

Neri Cohen, Juliana Zitron and Lior Granath watch. The Epstein School welcomed Faith Lutheran School of Marietta to an interfaith

Seder, created to engage students in sharing their faiths and an appreciation of one another. Passover begins at sundown March 25.

Clergy to deliver straightforward sermons

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in death that I will be in Heaven with Jesus is be-

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Kinsey Farmer, left, sings the national anthem on March 9, opening day for Sandy Springs Youth Sports at Morgan Falls Park in Sandy Springs. At right, mascots from area schools join players as the national anthem is sung on

the Northside Youth Organization’s Opening Day ceremony at Chastain Park in Buckhead on March 16.

At left, Jackson Fobas waits his turn at bat during a Dunwoody Senior Baseball game at Dunwoody Park on March 9. At right, volunteers Kathleen Jackson, left, and Brenda Kidwell, survey the action at Murphey Candler Park in Brookhaven during the start of Murphey Candler Baseball’s season.

At left, Rachel Axelson stands

with her balloon during the opening

ceremonies of Murphey Candler

Girls Softball on March 9.

At right, Brooks Bowling runs

the bases during an opening day game March 16 for the Athletics of the Buckhead

Baseball league at Frankie Allen Park

in Buckhead.

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Baseball is back

In parks across Reporter Newspapers communities, spring arrives with the ping of a ball on a metal bat.

In March, baseball and softball teams head to their carefully manicured ball-fields in Sandy Springs, Buckhead, Brookhaven and Dunwoody.

Players celebrated the re-turn of their summer game with parades, renditions of the national anthem and, of course, ceremonial first pitches.

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Sean King is a school counsel-or’s dream. An outstanding student in both sports and the arts, he keeps busy throughout the year.

As captain of his school’s swim team for the past three years, Sean won the 100 breaststroke and came in second in the 100 freestyle at the Georgia Inde-pendent School Assocition state cham-pionship last year. He was the only state qualifying member of his team, plac-ing third in the 100 breaststroke at the Georgia High School Association state championship with a time of 58:46.

“I love the sport of swimming be-cause it is a lifelong sport that is argu-ably one of the most challenging to train for and compete,” Sean said in an email. “The leadership, character and life values I have gained from swimming are ones I will cherish for the rest of my life.”

Sean also is involved in the arts as a member of the chorus at his school and the choir at his church. He plays the roles of Snail, Man Bird, Lizard, and Fa-ther Frog in his school’s spring musical, “A Year with Frog and Toad.”

Sean likes writing poetry and cook-ing. He enjoys inventing recipes and says his favorite meal to cook is baked chicken with spinach and Parmigiano. He also volunteers to help build houses for Habitat for Humanity.

“Sean King is a Renaissance man!” said Mount Vernon Upper School Dean of Students Krista Parker. “He is athlet-ic, musically gifted and a hard worker in class.

“His peers respect and admire him. I have seen him help out his classmates, and he is always sharing with me infor-mation he has heard or seen regarding biology. Sean always has a smile on his face and is a good-natured, caring young man.”

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Sean is undecided about his plans for college, but he’s interested in majoring in biology or psychology. He plans on swimming in college.

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Tori Weprinsky ranks third in her class and, coincidentally, is also a three-sport varsity athlete.

Tori has lettered in volleyball, bas-ketball and soccer. Meanwhile, she has served as president of the National Hon-or Society, president of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a student ambas-sador and a dual magnet student in sci-ence and music.

“Honestly, I don’t get much sleep,” Tori joked when asked how she has time for all her activities. “But I think that staying busy forces me to stay on top of everything and helps me with my time management.”

Tori’s accomplishments on and off the field of play include being named an Advanced Placement Scholar, a Univer-sity of Georgia Merit Scholar and volley-ball defensive player of the year.

On March 5, Tori was honored at the Atlanta Sports Awards as the Female High School Scholar Athlete of the Year. The award recognizes Atlanta-area high school athletes who have demonstrated excellence in both sports and academ-ics. As a recipient, Tori receives a $1,000 scholarship at a university of her choice.

“I was so honored to be in the same room as the other amazing athletes and to be receiving an award,” she said. “I was pretty starstruck when I was talking to [former Atlanta Braves baseball play-er] Chipper Jones and [Atlanta Falcons quarterback] Matt Ryan.”

Tori has played volleyball since her freshman year and has played on the var-sity team since her sophomore year.

“[The highlight of my athletic ca-reer] was getting to the [state tourna-ment] Sweet 16 in volleyball two years in a row,” Tori says.

Tori has played basketball and soccer since she was 6. She played varsity bas-ketball from her freshman through ju-nior year and varsity soccer all four years of high school.

“I don’t have much time in the off-season because I’m always playing a dif-ferent sport,” Tori said. “I do play some pickup games of soccer, basketball and volleyball, and practice in my backyard or driveway with my dad and friends.”

Tori was nominated for the scholar-athlete award by North Springs Prin-cipal Lisa Stueve and Athletic Director Tommy Amoroso.

“Tori has excelled on the playing field as well as the classroom. Her faith drives

her to be the best person she can be. She does a great deal for her peers and the community alike,” Amoroso said.

What’s Next:

Tori has been accepted to South-ern Methodist University, University of Georgia, University of Virginia, Univer-sity of North Carolina and Tulane Uni-versiy and is waiting to hear from sev-eral other colleges. She is undecided but hopes to use her college education to work toward her goal of becoming a doctor.

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Once they find an unguarded pair of the pricey brand-name jeans, they break one of the Ten Commandments: Thou shall not steal. The pants cost upward of $300 a pair. Atlanta Police Officer C. Smith works the mall during his after-noon shift and said the jeans are popular among the shoplifters he arrests.

“I’m perfectly fine with Wranglers for like $20 or $30,” Smith said. “I don’t understand why anybody needs to pay $300 for jeans.”

Theft from Lenox was one of Buck-head’s biggest crimes in 2012, accord-ing to statistics released by the Atlan-ta Police Department. Lenox, owned by Simon Property Group, is one of the South’s largest shopping malls, con-taining more than 250 stores. It attracts shoppers from all over.

The crowded mall with a constant stream of traffic and exhilaratingly ex-pensive merchandise also lures greedy fingers. Shoplifters don’t think twice about grabbing merchandise and mak-ing a run for it.

The thieves have a harder time get-ting their loot out of Lenox, Smith says.

While Buckhead’s police boundary, Zone 2, is Atlanta’s top reporter of prop-erty crime, the Lenox beat had more thefts classified as “other larceny” than any other beat in the zone. Other larce-ny usually means thefts that don’t involve unlawfully entering property. Crimes such as shoplifting fall into this category.

Atlanta Police annually release data about all Part 1 crimes, offenses police are more likely to know about and are reported more frequently.

In 2012, Part 1 crimes in Zone 2 rose by 8 percent over 2011. It was the only zone in the city with an overall increase.

Zone 2 is divided into 13 beats. Beat 210, which includes Lenox, had the

most Part 1 crimes of any beat in the zone, a statistic driven by its large num-ber of “other larceny” crimes.

Lenox Square spokeswoman Carly Dennis said the mall has a “close work-ing relationship with APD” but would not discuss the crime statistics in depth.

“We do not comment on the specif-ic security measures the mall implements daily to keep shoppers safe,” she said.

Zone 2 commander, Maj. Van Hobbs, compiles Part 1 crime data in a thick binder. He studies it, looking for trends that can help him develop strategies to keep Buckhead’s crime rate low.

Hobbs said out of more than 443 “other larcenies” in Beat 210 reported in 2012, 345 were at Lenox. The com-mander said the beat’s numbers im-proved from 2011, when there were 503 other larcenies reported, 401 of which were at Lenox.

It should be noted that Beat 210 does not include Phipps Plaza, which is near Lenox Square. Phipps is in Beat 208 and that beat generated 269 other larceny re-ports.

Broken down further, Hobbs said shoplifting at Lenox in 2012 accounted for 177 of the other larcenies reported, down from 255 in 2011.

Hobbs attributes the drop in num-bers to changing police tactics. He said Deputy Chief and Field Operations Di-vision Commander Ernest Finley Jr. looked at all areas in the city that were hot spots for shoplifters.

“What he did is, we have recruits that get hired and prior to going to the acad-emy, we put them where we need them,” Hobbs said. “We put them in those ar-eas as extra eyes and ears.”

The recruits can’t make arrests, but their presence and reports to sworn po-lice officers keep shoplifters in check, Hobbs said.

Police catch many of the suspects at the mall. The larger anchor stores, like

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Shoppers ride the escalator at lenox Square in Buckhead.



Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, have their own security known as “loss prevention officers.” The mall hires off-duty Atlan-ta police officers to patrol the rest of the property.

“Obviously we’re not going to catch everybody,” Hobbs said.

Hobbs said some of the Lenox Mall thieves are professional criminals who see the potential for arrest as the cost of doing business.

Smith doesn’t arrest many profession-als on his shift, which starts in the after-noon and stretches late into the night. The people he arrests are mostly juveniles.

“They’re just coming in, taking MARTA, and then they don’t have a ride back,” Smith said. “Parents usually don’t know why their kids are even in Buckhead.”

Smith said he’s often tasked with tak-ing juvenile offenders home after they’ve been arrested. The rides in his squad car can be quiet, aside from the constant crackling of radio chatter.

“I myself try not to preach too much,” Smith said. “I try to let them know that it’s not accepted and they need to get off this certain area that they’re in, but I’m not the kind of per-son that likes to keep beating some-body down and telling them how they’re the worst person and they need to change everything that they’ve ever done because of this. I just let them know it’s a bad decision and they need to not do it again.”

These offenders seldom do commit the same crime twice, or at least they don’t do it at Lenox, Smith said. He said juveniles convicted of shoplifting re-ceive a criminal trespass warning, ban-ishing them from the mall for two to three years.

So who are these kids? Smith said their grades are usually

below average and they don’t participate in after-school activities. Their relation-ships with their fathers are often strained

or nonexistent, he said. “I talk to them about it,” Smith said.

“They seem to be lost, most of the time.” The kids’ motives aren’t complicated,

he said.“There’s not really a set mold for

shoplifters,” Smith said. “I feel like the shoplifter will just take something be-cause they think they can get away with it at the time. I’ve had somebody have a pocketful of $500 in bills and they took $200 worth of stuff.”

Smith said while True Religion jeans are popular on the five-finger discount list, there are the weirder heists, like the kid who stole a $2,000 espresso ma-chine.

Hobbs said food, electronics, cos-metics and batteries are targets. Smart phones and other gadgets like iPads are also favorites, Hobbs said.

Often the shoplifters work in teams, using a distraction method. One will chat up a sales associate while the oth-er nabs merchandise or the employee’s phone.

“People are pretty careless with their cellphones,” Hobbs said. “They’ll leave them on the register.”

Sometimes the thieves walk into open break rooms and steal wallets and purs-es. It’s always about opportunity and op-portunities abound at Lenox.

Smith said he often feels he’s fighting a losing battle as he drives his car in cir-cles round and round the mall looking for trouble.

He can’t tell if he’s made any real dif-ference. Smith said there have been few-er calls recently compared with the fero-cious shoplifting in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

“There’s definitely been less lately than I’ve had to deal with in the past,” Smith said.

But is it a long-term trend? “You’ll get your answer pretty quickly

come summertime when the kids aren’t in school,” Smith said.

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lenox Square mall in Buckhead is one of the largest shopping centers in the Southeast. Shoplifting at the

mall was lower in 2012 compared with 2011.



Police BlotterFrom police reports dated through

march 14.

The following information was pulled from Dunwoody’s Police-to-Citizen Portal Event Search website and is presumed to be ac-

curate.

BuRGlaRy � 1400 block of Rochelle Drive – a burglary

to a residence, using forced entry, was re-ported on Feb. 28.

� 4500 block of N. Peachtree Road – a bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on Feb. 28.

� 2400 block of Dunkerrin Lane – a burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was re-ported on Feb. 28.

� 2200 block of Dartford Drive – a burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was re-ported on Feb. 28.

� 8100 block of Peachford Circle – a bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on march 5.

� 4400 block of Chamblee Dun-woody Road – a bur-glary to a non-resi-dence, without using forced entry, was re-ported on march 6.

� 2900 block of Wintercrest Drive – a bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on march 6.

� 1400 block of Cedarhurst Drive – a bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on march 8.

� 3800 block of Lake Ridge Lane – a bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on march 8.

� 1800 block of Independence Square – a burglary to a non-residence, using forced en-try, was reported on march 9.

� 4200 block of E. Kings Point Circle – a burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on march 10.

� 1700 block of N. Springs Drive – a bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on march 11.

auTo TheFT � 10200 block of Peachford Circle – Theft of

an auto was reported on march 8.

TheFT/laRCeNy � 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Lar-

ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on Feb. 28.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – a larceny was reported on Feb. 28.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – shoplifting was reported on Feb. 28.

� 4700 block of N. Peachtree Road – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 1.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road –

shoplifting was reported on march 1.

� 4500 block of Olde Perimeter Way – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on march 1.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 3.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – a larceny was reported on march 3.

� 3000 block of Bernauer Trace – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 3.

� 900 block of Ashwood Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 4.

� 1400 block of Mount Vernon Road

– Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on march 4.

� 4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – shoplifting was reported on march 4.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place – shoplifting was reported on march 4.



� 4700 block of Ridgeview Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 5.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place – a larceny was reported on march 5.



� 1200 block of Ashford Crossing – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 5.

� 2400 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 6.

� 4800 block of Twin Lakes Trail – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 6.


� 1500 block of Mount Vernon Road – Lar-

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ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 7.



� 1300 block of Dunwoody Village Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on march 7.

� 5600 block of Roberts Drive – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on march 7.

� 5600 block of Roberts Drive – Larceny of articles from a ve-hicle was reported on march 7.

� 5300 block of Roberts Drive – Larceny of articles from a ve-hicle was reported on march 7.

� 4700 block of Layfield Drive – Larceny of articles from a ve-hicle was reported on march 8.

� 1100 block of Dunwoody Village Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 8.

� 1100 block of Dunwoody Village Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on march 8.

� 5300 block of Wynterhall Drive – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 8.

� 1100 block of Wynterhall Lane – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 8.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center West – a lar-ceny from a building was reported on march 8.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – a lar-ceny was reported on march 9.

� 1200 block of Hidden Ridge Lane – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on march 9.

� 4800 block of Valley View Court – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 9.



� 4300 block of E. Kings Point Circle – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 9.

� 4100 block of Chestnut Ridge Drive – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 9.

� 4300 block of E. Kings Point Circle – a lar-ceny from a residential mailbox was report-ed on march 9.

� 1400 block of Valley View Manor – Larce-ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 9.

� 1200 block of Hammond Drive – Larce-

ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 10.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center West – a lar-ceny was reported on march 12.

� 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – a lar-ceny was reported on march 13.

� 6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – a larceny from a building was report-ed on march 13.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – shoplift-ing was reported on march 13.

� 4800 block of N. Peachtree Road – a larceny from a building was reported on march 14.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place – shoplifting was reported on march 14.

� 200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on march 14.

� 200 block of Perime-ter Center Parkway – Larce-

ny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 14.

� 4400 block of N. Peachtree Road – a larce-ny was reported on march 14.

� 4800 block of Tilly Mill Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on march 14.

aSSaulT � 4800 block of Village Creek Drive – simple

assault was reported on march 2.

� 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Family battery/simple battery was reported on march 6.

� 4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – aggravated assault with a weapon was re-ported on march 6.

� 3800 block of Lake Ridge Lane – simple assault/battery was reported

on march 8.

� 300 block of Perimeter Center North – assault through intimidation was reported on march 8.

� 2100 block of Peachford Road – simple assault/battery was reported on march 8.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place – assault through intimi-

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� 2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing – sim-ple assault/battery was reported on march 10.

� 4800 block of Manget Court – simple as-sault/battery was reported on march 10.

� 2000 block of Pernoshal Court – Fami-ly battery/simple battery was reported on march 13.

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� 5500 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – a worthless check was re-ported on march 1.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Fraud was reported on march 2.

� 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Fraud was reported on march 4.

� 4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Check forgery was report-ed on march 4.

� 1300 block of Martina Drive – Credit card fraud was reported on march 4.

� 4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – swindle was reported on march 4.

� 5200 block of Manhasset Court – Fraud through impersonation was re-ported on march 5.

� 1200 block of Mile Post Drive – Fraud was reported on march 6.

� 4800 block of Twin Lakes Trail – Fraud through impersonation was re-ported on march 8.

� 4500 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Fraud through imperson-ation was reported on march 8.

� 100 block of Perimeter Center Place – Fraud through impersonation was reported on march 11.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Fraud through imperson-ation was reported on march 11.

� 100 block of Perimeter Trace – Credit card fraud was reported on march 14.

oTheR � 4900 block of Springfield Drive – harassing communications were re-

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� 1800 block of Independence Square – harassing communications were reported on march 5.

� 5400 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – Disorderly under the influ-ence was reported on march 7.

� 5100 block of Mount Vernon Way – harassing communications were reported on march 10.

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