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City offi cials plan to spend a $500,000 bud-get surplus to build new sidewalks, pave more streets and cut the grass around city entrances so the town looks better.

Originally, the city’s budget committee voted to leave some of the 2016 surplus untouched, but City Council on Oct. 26 voted to use up the remaining money on paving.

City Councilman Terry Nall argued the city should go ahead and spend the money, rath-er than save it, because the 2016 budget has a $300,000 contingency fund, which is separate from the surplus. He said the city needed to pave more streets.

“We’re losing ground in the paving war,” Nall said.

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Axel Bong, 3, throws out a wave while enjoying a ride during Apple Cider Days on Oct. 25. The fi ve-day event, held at Perimeter Mall, was hosted by the Dunwoody Preservation Trust. The festivities offered

up a carnival-like atmosphere, along with midway games and food. See another photo on page 4.

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Light Up Dunwoody will continue this year in the same place it’s been held for the past fi ve.

But the Christmas tree and a six-foot menorah that had been proposed as part of the annual holiday festival will be moved across the street.

Th e Dunwoody Homeowners Association and the Dunwoody Preservation Trust compromised to keep the traditional lighted festival going.

“I’m glad to see that cooler heads prevailed,” Dun-woody Mayor Mike Davis said.

Th e DHA’s proposal to add the six-foot menorah to the property at the Cheek-Spruill Farmhouse caused its owner, the Dunwoody Preservation Trust, to reject any potentially religious symbol at the annual event. Co-pres-idents of the trust said the mission to include all residents

meant restricting non-secular objects on the property.“Because some holiday symbols are open for individ-

ual interpretation, we respectfully request that the DHA move the tree to another location,” Dunwoody Preserva-tion Trust said in a public statement.

DHA board member Richard Jones said in an email that he wanted to fi nd a compromise that would bene-fi t the event organizers, the community and the groups sponsoring Light Up Dunwoody.

“Th is is a celebration of good will,” Jones wrote. “Let’s not let it devolve into a negative source of ill will that all will regret.”

So, DHA President Robert Wittenstein and DHA board members sought a solution that would allow the

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Farmhouse to host Light Up Dunwoody again

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The annual Light Up Dunwoody event will continue at the the Cheek-Spruill

Farmhouse, but the Christmas tree and a proposed six-foot menorah will

be displayed across the street.

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Time to chooseOn Nov. 3, Dunwoody voters will cast ballots for mayor and three City

Council seats. Four candidates – incumbent Mayor Mike Davis, former City Councilman Denis Shortal, Chris Grivakis and Stephen Chip-ka – seek the mayor’s post. Councilman Terry Nall faces challenger Becky Springer for an at-large post on the council. Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch and Councilman John Heneghan are running unop-

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MARTA to seek new tax for expansionMARTA plans to ask Georgia lawmakers next year to convert a portion of a pro-

posed transportation sales tax to raise $4 billion to extend rail lines, the transit agen-cy’s chairman says. MARTA Chairman Robert L. Ashe said the agency wants to use half of a proposed transportation sales tax to pay for transit expan-sion, and to ask DeKalb and Fulton voters to extend the tax for 42 years, through the life of the current MARTA sales tax. “Th at’s the only way we’re going to get [the expansions] built,” Ashe told members of the Rotary Club of Sandy Springs during their Oct. 26 meeting.

But Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody), who chairs a MARTA oversight committee, said during a Dunwoody City Council meeting, also on Oct. 26, that the proposed MARTA sales tax would likely bring a “battle royal” in the upcoming legislative session. “Th e issue that is going on with this is, they are putting a lot of pressure on [legislators] outside the two counties that have funded this for the past 45 years to pass it, saying, basically, ‘Hey, it doesn’t aff ect you. DeKalb and Fulton are going to pick it up.’ What I intend to do here is, if they want to make it a statewide issue, let’s make it a statewide issue,” Taylor said. “If it’s a benefi t to the state, let the state get some skin in the game.”

GDOT offi cials plan to choose I-285/Ga. 400 contractors in December

State transportation offi cials plan to choose in December the contractors who will build the $1.05 billion highway inter-change planned for the meeting of I-285 and Ga. 400. State transportation offi cials say construction on the project could begin in late 2016 or early 2017. Th e work is to be completed in 2020.

Th e project will add collector-distribu-tor lanes to better move traffi c through the interchange, state offi cials have said. Mak-ing room for the added lanes will require purchasing some land, offi cials said, but the only structures expected to be removed are an offi ce building and a parking lot on Lake Hearn Drive, according to proposals shown during public meetings in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody.

Th e biggest change refl ected in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s most recent plans, said Mario Clowers, GDOT project manager, was the addition of a bike path through portions of the interchange. When completed, the path will allow bike connections between PATH400 in Buckhead and a planned path alongside a portion of Peachtree-Dunwoody Road, he said.

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Th e budget committee on Oct. 20 approved several projects that totaled $401,505 and on Oct. 26 the remaining $98,495 was added for paving projects. Th e extra money comes from better-than-expected tax collections.

Budget committee members Council-woman Lynn Deutsch and Councilmen Jim Riticher and Doug Th ompson decided which projects to fund from a short list put

together by city staff members, Finance Di-rector Chris Pike said.

After looking at and agreeing to spend $50,000 designing the multi-use trail on Cotillion Drive, Th ompson brought up adding the Winters Chapel Road multi-use trail project.

“I was a little miff ed that the Cotillion multi-use project was on our list and Win-ters Chapel was not on our sidewalk pri-ority list,” Th ompson said. “Th e response I got back from public works was that Win-ters Chapel was a transportation project and not a sidewalk project.”

Deutsch suggested allocating $50,000 to the Winters Chapel Road multi-use trail, which the committee approved. Th e com-mittee also approved $156,000 to com-plete a sidewalk on Village Creek Drive, which Pike identifi ed as a top priority.

Th e council budgeted a total of $55,000 for mowing along roads at city entrances. Th at included $40,000 budgeted last year and an additional $15,000 from the sur-plus that Pike said would pay for mow-ing from Perimeter Industrial Boulevard to Winters Chapel Road.

During the Oct. 12 City Council meet-ing, Councilman John Heneghan ques-tioned about paying for the additional mowing along interchanges. “Can I get a sense from the budget committee or the mayor of why the $40,000 for mowing the Interstate is important to the city of Dun-woody and the residents who live here?” Heneghan asked.

Th ompson responded the mowing helps keep the city looking sharp for vis-

itors. “Like at Ashford-Dunwoody [Road],

[mowing] sets the tone for quality in the city,” Th ompson said. “Go down and get off at Memorial Drive or some of the inter-sections down there and as soon as you get off you go, ‘Th at’s a crappy part of town,’ and I don’t want that same image being projected in Dunwoody.”

Th e committee also approved $50,000 to design a sidewalk and bike lane along

Peeler Road between Chamblee-Dun-woody and North Peachtree roads, at the segment from Olde Village Lane to North Peachtree. Th e cost made sense, committee members said, because the road was already scheduled for resurfac-ing and paving.

Of the surplus money, $38,000 will go toward replacing in-car and interview room police cameras, though a request to add an offi cer in 2016 was not approved.

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City uses surplus to build sidewalks, replace policegear and design trails

“I was a little miffed that the Cotillion multi-use

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menorah and Christmas tree to be dis-played nearby, while keeping the tra-ditional lights at the trust’s property, located at 5455 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road.

Th e owner of Dunwoody Ani-mal Clin-ic, Doug-las Morgan, agreed to allow a tree and meno-rah on his property, across the street from the farm-house, Wit-tenstein said.

“Th e DHA board of directors voted to hold Light Up Dunwoody at the farmhouse,” Wit-tenstein wrote in an email.

“Th is reverses a decision announced a week ago to fi nd a new location for the event. We thank the [trust] for their willingness to allow us to pro-duce the event on their property.”


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With all the recent turmoil in DeKalb Coun-ty govern-ment, it is easy to for-get that the DeKalb delega-tion to the state Legis-lature took key steps toward re-form in this year’s General Assembly.

Two reforms -- the establishment of an independent internal auditor and purchasing reform -- are being imple-mented now, but the third reform, re-organization of our Board of Ethics, requires voter approval in the election Nov. 3 to go into eff ect.

I urge you to go to the polls and vote ‘yes’ on Board of Ethics reform.

DeKalb’s Board of Ethics has been handicapped in the past decade by ne-glect and abuse.

Until two years ago, when I carried the board’s request for a budget increase from $1,500 to $140,000 per year, the board was denied the resources re-quired to hire a staff and conduct in-

vestigations. Worse, appointments to the board were ignored by the CEO and the presiding offi cers of the Board of Commissioners, so the membership dwindled and they couldn’t consistent-ly draw a quorum to conduct business.

When these failings became public, ethics board leaders were removed and replaced with political supporters. Th e board we have now is limping along, but this year’s legislation could go a long way to right the ship.

Th e key elements of the reform sub-ject to voter approval include:

Board composition: Instead of the current seven-year terms, appoint-ed by the CEO and commission, the seven members of the board of ethics will serve staggered three-year terms, and will be appointed by the DeKalb County Bar Association, the Cham-ber of Commerce, the Legislative del-egation, the judge of Probate Court, the chief judge of the Superior Court, a committee of the six major colleges and universities in DeKalb and Leadership DeKalb. Appointments are time-lim-ited. Members must reside in DeKalb County and satisfy standards ensuring that there are no confl icts of interest.

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with the county, paid or unpaid, as well as the CEO and county commissioners.

Sta� : One staff position, not to ex-ceed a six-year term with responsibil-ities to include: educating the board on ethical conduct; monitoring a “hot line” for complaints and reports of al-leged violations; reporting suspected vi-olations to the board; obtaining disclo-sure reports; and fi ling an annual report with the board, the CEO and the pub-lic. Th e board’s budget will be guaran-teed to support staff and operations.

Penalties: Violations of the Code of Ethics will include public reprimands; fi nes not to exceed $1,000; and refer-rals for prosecution in State Court, and upon conviction, fi nes of up to $1,000 per violation and up to six months in prison. In the case of a contractor, the contract will be suspended and the in-dividual disqualifi ed from performing work as a contractor or sub-contractor in DeKalb County in the future.

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“Under no circumstance should the city of Brookhaven learn about eco-nomic development and tax abate-ments given away by the county through the newspaper.”

--Wendy Butler, the attorney for the Brookhaven Development Authority, on large tax breaks granted to two Brookhaven commercial properties by DeKalb County’s Development Authority without notice to city o� cials.

“Unfortunately, since [the book idea was raised] fi ve years ago, many of those homes are either altered so sig-nifi cantly they would no longer quali-fy [as historic] or have been torn down. Th ings are changing.”

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The Savor Sandy Springs Restaurant Week, returning Nov. 2-8 for its second year, is one of many similar promotions boosting the dining business around the Perimeter and the nation. But there’s something special about the group or-ganizing it, the Sandy Springs Restau-rant Council, and about how Restaurant Week fits into its much bigger business plan.

An initiative of the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, the Restaurant Council hosts expert speak-ers at monthly meetings and is organiz-ing quarterly public events with the goal of putting the city on the metro Atlanta fine-dining map.

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But times change. Bourbon turned sexy after all. And Tapia, who was born in Peru and grew up near New York, now lives in Sandy Springs and has created his own brand of bourbon, the favorite whiskey of the Amer-ican South. He hopes it will catch on as part of a new interest in small batch bourbons.

He named his whiskey J.R. Revelry. Th e “J.R.” represents his initials; his full name is Jesus Ricardo Tapia. Th e “Revel-ry” part of the name suggests celebration, he said. And the design on the label of his bottles – a black bowler – is a nod both to good times and his family’s roots in South America, where the round-topped hats still represent high fashion in some areas.

Tapia is quick to point out that his bourbon is 100 percent American-made. It says so right on the label, in Spanish. (“Th e Spanish on the label was for me, a personal thing,” he said. “I was saying, ‘Hey, I’m Latino.’”) His bourbon, which sells for $30 to $40 a bottle, is distilled in Indiana and bottled in Nashville, he said. Even the stoppers are made in the U.S., he said.

Tapia, who’s 44, comes by his interest in producing spirits through experience. He actually started out as an accountant (In college, “I knew I couldn’t do a fl uff y degree,” he said.), but quickly moved to working as a promoter for various nation-al and international liquor companies. He promoted vodka, tequila, even the occa-sional Scotch. He worked for various com-panies during his 18 years in the business.

About nine years ago, he and his wife planned to move from the Northeast to

Miami for his job. But liquor companies buy and sell one another all the time, he said, and before his transfer was complet-ed, his company was bought by anoth-er company and they found themselves headed to Georgia, instead. “My wife and I were a bit surprised,” he said.

In Georgia, he discovered bourbon. “When I moved here was when I learned

about it and started drinking it on a regular basis,” he said.

When his company was sold again a couple of years ago, he and his family faced another corporate transfer, which would have required starting over in

another town. So he decided to head off on his own, “to create my own brand,” he said.

He knew what he liked in the bour-bons he drank himself, he said, so he “re-verse blended” his own brand to get a smooth bourbon that would mix well in cocktails, he said.

And small batch bourbons now seem to be the hot commodity. “Th ings were changing. Th e whiskey thing was start-ing to happen,” he said. At the same time, in the world of selling whiskey, “the eco-nomics of creating a brand had complete-ly changed. Craft brewing had evolved to craft distilling.”

Now Tapia takes bottles of J.R. Revel-ry to golf tournaments, offi ce parties, hap-py hour tastings - wherever he can fi nd a group of people willing to try a taste. He fi gures it’s the best way to go up against the big companies he used to work for. “Who knows? Maybe someday they’ll buy my company,” he joked.

His whiskey now is sold in six states, he said. But competition is tough. “Th ere are new brands everywhere,” he said. “We say there’s the ‘browning of American pol-itics’ and then ‘the browning of Ameri-ca...’” Maybe the time has come, he said, for tastes to turn to darker drinks.

“It fi ts,” he said. “It’s good for us. It’s good for America.”

JOE EARLE

Rick Tapia created his own brand of bourbon, J.R. Revelry.

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Mercedes-Benz USA’s relocation to Sandy Springs is sparking a “transfor-mation” of the luxury automaker, Pres-ident and CEO Steven Can-non told a crowd of hundreds at the Oct. 20 Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Com-merce luncheon.

Cannon also discussed Mercedes’ forthcoming new offi ce tower and charitable programs. And he voiced his optimistic hope of having a 20-minute commute from his new Buckhead home.

“What started as a move from Montvale, N.J., to At-lanta has been a transforma-tion for the company,” Can-non said, describing Mercedes’ move to the Perimeter as a cre-ative shake-up. “It’s almost got a start-up feeling to it at our tem-porary headquarters.”

Th at temporary site is in Dun-woody, where the company will remain through 2017, until the fi rst phase of its new headquarters off Abernathy Road in Sandy Springs is built. Cannon de-scribed the “open-fl oor, transparent” in-terior design of the forthcoming towers.

“I said to the architects, ‘Build a building around a town hall concept,’” where employees can quickly and easily gather for meetings, he said. “Th e cubi-cle culture…that’s going away.”

Cannon said that local hiring has gone better than expected. He said he appreciates the welcome and off ers of support he has received here.

In a sign of the political part of that support, Cannon was seated at a table with the mayors of Brookhaven, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs.

“Th ere’s a great migration going on in this country,” Cannon said, with many people moving from the North to the “smile states” of the Southeast, South and Southwest. In that sense, Mercedes’

move brings it closer to its future U.S. customer base, he said.

Cannon answered questions from

Jim Fitzpatrick, CEO of CBT Automo-tive Network, a Sandy Springs-based au-tomotive industry news outlet.

CBT provided a comedic video about the top 10 reasons for buying a Mercedes here, including use of an “exclusive Mer-cedes HOV lane” and a self-driving car that would pilot itself to Sandy Springs’ forthcoming City Walk apartments.

Of course, local traffi c and commut-ing nightmares are no joke, and Mer-cedes is well aware of that part of its move. Th e company is already facing challenges in Dunwoody.

“We’re looking at some fl ex-time op-tions” to stagger employee commute times, Cannon said in an interview af-ter the luncheon. Th e new generation of employees expect such fl exibility in life-style, too, he said.

“Look, if you don’t off er millennials those kinds of options, you’re not go-ing to hold onto them,” Cannon said. “You’ve got to change the way you do business.”

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“It’s a unique way for residents and visitors to try restaurants they wouldn’t try otherwise, and to try them at a fixed price point,” said Katie Bishop, execu-tive director of the Dunwoody CVB, which has organized a Restaurant Week in collaboration with the city and the Dunwoody Perimeter Chamber each June since 2011. This year’s Dunwoody Restaurant Week had 17 restaurants offering lunch menus and 24 offering dinner menus.

Dunwoody copied the Restaurant Week idea from other places, Bish-op said, but the CVB has tried some homegrown efforts, too. One exam-ple was the “Wine-ing About Win-ter” event, running in January of 2013 and 2014, with restaurants offering dis-counted meals or bottles of wine dur-ing a dead-of-winter week. “We just want to affect the bottom line that week,” Bishop said. “We’re just trying to drive business into what is a slower week for restaurants.”

She and other Restaurant Week or-ganizers acknowledge that measuring the impact is difficult. “Each restau-rant owner has their own way of do-ing things,” said Trylovich, “so it’s re-ally hard to know what that impact is.”

The debut Georgia Restaurant Week, a statewide event in July ar-ranged by the Buckhead-based Geor-gia Restaurant Association, in collab-oration with the state Department of Economic Development, shows how the measurements can be tricky. At first glance, an association report looks pret-ty good: total sales over $900,000; 500 meals ordered from the special menus; 42 percent of customers showing up to try a new restaurant and 81 percent

“highly likely” to return.But with 96 participating restau-

rants, that means each location sold less than one Restaurant Week menu meal per day. The sales figure includes all res-taurant revenue, not just any above-av-erage bump that week. And only 35 customers responded to the survey.

Thirty percent of the restaurants saw a business boost, said association spokeswoman Melanie Charyton. She emphasized it was the statewide Res-taurant Week’s first year, adding that “we hope to build on this next year and create more revenue for our restau-rants.”

The Sandy Springs Restaurant Council is aiming beyond the quick-hit Restaurant Week model to brand the city as a dining hotspot like Buckhead or Midtown. The council formed in late 2013 when Mayor Rusty Paul was serving as the Chamber’s board chair and heard the call for more restaurant promotions. “As far as greater Atlanta is concerned, Sandy Springs is a restau-rant desert,” Paul said at a recent City Council meeting about the Restaurant Council effort.

About 15 people attended a recent council meeting at Seven Hens, includ-ing restaurant owners and representa-tives from the city, the chamber and the Perimeter Center Improvement Dis-tricts. One agenda item was the Res-taurant Week’s cross-promotion with an older tradition, the Sandy Springs Society’s Elegant Elf event. (Several res-taurants will serve “Elf-tini” cocktails.)

“It’s been collaborative amongst us. It’s not a competitive thing,” said Tisha Rosamond of Nothing Bundt Cakes, describing the council as a “partnership as well as friendship.”

Barbara Boukater, whose 5 Seasons Brewing hosted the football kickoff event, said the collaboration is “driv-ing home that this is a neighborhood effort. Keep it in Sandy Springs.”

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About 15 people attended a recent Sandy Springs Restaurant Council meeting at Seven Hens on Roswell Road.



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Pumpkin Smash!Saturday, Nov. 7, 3 - 4 p.m. – After Hallow-een has come and gone, there is fi nally a fun use for your decaying pumpkins. Families of all ages are welcome to the Dunwoody Library for a pumpkin smash. Drop your old jack-o’-lanterns and pump-kins off by 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 7, and be there at 3 p.m. for your chance to smash a pumpkin and even possibly fi nd a prize inside of one. Th e rem-nants will be turned into compost and donated to a local garden. Free and open to the public. Regis-tration not required. 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For additional details, go online to dekalblibrary.org or call 770-512-4640.

Holiday FestivalFriday, Nov. 13, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. and Sat-urday, Nov. 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. – Th e Dun-woody United Methodist Church presents their 24th annual Holiday Festival. Th e festival features handmade arts and crafts by more than 120 talent-ed artisans, an online silent auction, attic treasures, casseroles-to-go, children’s activities, a gourmet shop, photos with Santa and more. All proceeds from the event will be used to build two homes for Atlanta Habitat for Humanity next year. Fri-day night’s hours are a preview night for shopping, with no children’s activities. On Saturday, the day begins with a pancake breakfast at 7:30 a.m. All other activities start at 9 a.m. Free to attend and open to all. Need more information? Go to dun-woodyumc.org.

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Farmers MarketSaturday, Nov. 7, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. – Come out and enjoy the fall weather for this rain or shine farmers market. Stock up on fresh pro-duce, meats, eggs, artisan oils, freshly baked breads and pastries, prepared foods, coff ee and sweet treats. Th is weekly event takes place every Saturday through Dec. 12. Free and open to the public. University Baptist Church, 1375 Fernwood Cir., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. More information can be found at facebook.com/brookhavenmarket or brookhavenfarmersmarket.com.

Free Park DayWednesday, Nov. 11 – In honor of Veterans Day, the National Park Service off ers a free park day at select locations across the nation. One such participating park is the Chattahoochee River Na-tional Recreation Area, and visitors are invited to enjoy the grounds and property with no entrance fees. More information can be found at nps.gov/fi ndapark/feefreeparks. Chattahoochee River Na-tional Recreation Area, 1978 Island Ford Pkwy., Sandy Springs, 30350.

Happy TailsSaturday, Nov. 14, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. –Children aged 5 and up are invited to work on skills by reading to trained and registered therapy dogs. Sedona, a golden retriever, and Dugan, a bor-der collie mix, are great listeners, and will be on hand. Sign up for 15-minute sessions by email-ing [email protected]. Registra-tion required, but free to participate. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Buck-head, 30305. Questions? Go to afpls.org or call 404-814-3500.

Daffodil ProjectSunday, Nov. 15, 3 p.m. – Th e Daff odil Proj-ect aspires to build a worldwide living memorial in remembrance of the children who perished in the

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Susan Tourial could barely contain her enthusiasm.

“I’m ready to go already. How much longer?” she asked one recent afternoon as she sat at the kitchen table of her San-dy Springs home. “I’m ready to start. Get this party started, already!”

She wouldn’t have to wait much longer. The party she eagerly await-ed is the Marcus Jew-ish Community Center of Atlanta’s 24th annu-al book festival. It starts Nov. 5 and continues through Nov. 22.

Tourial’s enthusiasm is understandable. This year, she co-chairs the event. She’s been in-volved with the festival for five or six years and started working on this year’s edition last Janu-ary.

Besides, she thor-oughly enjoys this an-nual showcase of Jewish writing that has grown from presenting just three authors in its first year to hosting more than 40 this year, in-cluding such recognizable names as Ted Koppel, Alan and Arlene Alda, Mitch Albom and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. “We feel like this is our gift to the communi-ty, to have the caliber of some of these authors,” Tourial said.

Besides, she said, “it’s so much fun. It’s probably the most fun volunteer thing I have ever done.”

Through the years, the festival also has been fun for the writers, too, she said. More than 13,000 book fans are expected to attend the festival’s events this year. And they buy books, Tourial said. “Over 24 years, Atlanta has built up a really good reputation for the num-ber of people in our audience, the way we treat authors and the fact we sell books,” Tourial said.

Author Joey Reiman of Buckhead, who will discuss his book, “Thumbs Up! Five Steps to Create the Life of Your Dreams” on Nov. 22, calls the Marcus Center festival “one of the most impor-tant festivals that has ever been creat-ed.” Part of its appeal comes from its at-tachment to the Marcus Center, which was named for Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, Reiman said. “In Jewish nomenclature, there is something called a mensch,” he said. “A mensch is a genu-ine human being in the moral and ethi-cal arena. When I see Bernie is involved with an organization, the word mensch comes up.”

The festival’s appeal also is based on the authors it chooses to present and how it presents them, Tourial said. More than 200 volunteers are involved in 14 different committees that put on the fes-tival, according to the MJCCA.

From 75 to 100 volunteers are in-volved in the author se-lection process, Tourial said. Some read books and rate them. Some take part in one annu-al event, held in New York, that functions as sort of “speed dating” between writers and book festival officials from across the coun-try, she said. Other au-thors are chosen after their publicists contact festival officials to pro-mote their work, she said.

Is it worth all the work? “I think it’s an important thing to

do,” Tourial said. I think it’s an important cultur-al festival for the whole community. Atlanta’s a big community. I grew up in a Jewish Atlanta

where there were maybe five synagogues. Look how many there are now.”

Besides, she said, “I love to read. When I started going to the book festi-val, I realized how much I enjoyed hear-ing an author talk about their process.”

So, after months of putting the fes-tival together, Tourial is eager to get things started.

“I really and truly enjoy it,” she said enthusiastically. “It’s fun.”

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There’s a train that runs past a drive-in theater showing “Gone with the Wind,” over Savannah’s famous River Street, alongside an Atlanta Steel plant, and into the Georgia mountains. It’s called the My Way Railroad, and it makes the entire trip in a basement on Nesbit Ferry Road.

Mike and Lee Dunn’s enormous model train layout was one of sever-al Sandy Springs stops on Oct. 25 on an open-house tour called the Piedmont Pil-grimage. Hundreds of model railroad fans

made the trip, and will visit more layouts in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs as the open houses continue through November.

“It gets bigger every year,” said Dave Bennett of Woodstock’s Train Installa-tions, who built the layouts for the Dunns and many other model-railroaders.

In fact, Sandy Springs is an epicen-ter of the old-school hobby. The regional Piedmont Division of the National Mod-el Railroad Association meets month-ly at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, sometimes drawing 100 members. Ben-nett stays busy working with many mem-bers, making home visits in a locomotive-style van outfitted with a cowcatcher and a smokestack. He also maintains the train layout running in the Children’s Health-care hospital on Pill Hill, an item donated by one of his customers.

Building a model train layout can take years and cost $1,500 to $15,000—or way more, for layouts such as the My Way line, said Bennett. The Dunns’ layout fills a 30-by-25-foot room with 500 feet of track and realistic murals providing a 360-de-gree background.

“I guess it’s in the genes,” said Mike Dunn. He got hooked on model trains as a kid in Los Angeles, then became an entrepreneur and a fan of trap-shooting. Years later, after coming South, he learned his great-great-grandfather was a trap-shooter and president of the Central of Georgia Railway.

“I’m the historian,” said Lee Dunn,

who’s writing a book about her husband’s ancestor. She pointed out some of the lay-out’s small details that were often charm-ing or humorous, such as “Wicked Wan-da’s,” a miniature railroad brothel.

Small details and family roots were themes in all the local layouts. At Joe Nichols Jr.’s Ridgemont Drive home, fa-ther Joe Sr. helped him run a recreation of 1917-era Colorado gold-hauling train.

Joe Jr. and Joe Sr. share a name, a pro-fession—they’re both surgeons—and the

family hobby. They’re both NMRA-certified “Master Model Rail-roaders,” only the third father-son pair to have the status, Joe Sr. said. The elder Nichols will open his home on the Nov. 7 Piedmont Pil-grimage date, and his son will return the fa-vor by helping to run it. “He’s got one of the biggest layouts in town,” around 1,000 square feet, said Joe Jr.

The space, cost and time needed to build

a layout mean that most hobbyists get into it later in life, Joe Jr. said.

“The biggest limita-tion is cost,” he said. “The second limita-tion is getting permission from your wife.” That’s Lynn Nichols, who confirmed some complex negotiations underway about some extra basement square-footage.

Many of Joe Jr.’s Colorado mountains were still unfinished Styrofoam carvings, and he isn’t picky about the complexi-ties of switches and signals on the minia-ture railroad. “I don’t care if they derail,” he said, explaining that he enjoys building the train models more than running them.

For Robert Young, who runs a minia-ture Pennsylvania Railroad in his Hunters Trace Circle basement, the appeal is cre-ating trackside scenes—people fishing, fire trucks leaving a station and hundreds more events packed into the landscape.

“It’s vignettes,” said Young. “You pick an area and it tells a little story. That’s the part I enjoy, is detailing it.”

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Nearly every fall, Viju Rao and his family throw a huge party.

Th ey invite crowds of guests to their home — “everybody that we meet on the street in Dunwoody, plus all of [daughter] Devika’s friends,” Rao said. “Most of them have started asking, ‘When’s Diwali this year?’”

Th is year, Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, will be celebrated Nov. 11. Piy-ush Behre, a volunteer with the Hindu Temple of Dun-woody, said the holiday is mostly celebrated in homes.

Diwali commemo-rates “the day Rama comes back to his kingdom after 14 years—that’s why all the lights,” Viju Rao said. “Th e kingdom lights up and ev-erybody celebrates the return of the king.”

In Dunwoody, Hindu families hang on to their cultural heritage by celebrat-ing the stories and the traditions. Devi-ka Rao described the celebration as “fi re sparklers, food, friends, family and lots of

color.” Although the Raos don’t attend the

local temple or consider themselves reli-gious Hindus, “we are cultural Hindus,”

Viju Rao said, and happy to celebrate the holiday.

“Th e cultural part is very peaceful, very secular,” Devika Rao added.

Viju Rao said a Hin-du guides himself with two books, one of which is the “Ramayana,” an 8,000-word epic poem written in Sanskrit about the story of Lord Rama. “Th ese stories are not religious,” Rao said. “Th ey’re just mythology.”

Sunitha Gandava-di teaches Sanskrit to chil-dren at the Hindu Temple of Dunwoody. She, too, says

culture and spirituality outweigh reli-gious dogma. “We just say we are Hin-dus because of the festivals we celebrate,” Gandavadi said.

She added she and her friends “are not religious in a way that would look down on another religion.” “We don’t,” Ganda-vadi said. “Even back in India, we went to Catholic schools.”

When people understand the mes-sages in myths, such as tales about Lord Rama, Rao said, the stories teach about morality. “Th e fact is it’s a very intelli-gent, smart way to teach a common-er,” Rao said. “If you spend a little time thinking about it, and reading about In-dian spirituality, you start to understand why they told these stories.”

He says his family is celebrating the new year when he invites people for Di-wali, which mirrors Christmas because people exchange gifts and sweets. Ac-countants get their books blessed “so they can cheat for the rest of the year,” Rao joked.

Last year, the Hindu Temple of Dun-woody opened at 2029 Pernoshal Court. Th e owners of Indian Bazaar grocery store converted a warehouse they own into the temple space, Gandavadi said.

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His activities have piqued my inter-est enough for me to make the eff ort to logon and sign up..

And what an eff ort it was! Usu-ally it’s my password that doesn’t pass muster, which is why I now have ap-proximately 43 variations on my orig-inal (six-letter/one-digit) password-of-choice, each with a slight deviation of capitals, digits and letters, and therefore all now completely im-possible to recall. But again, this time I was able to slip by easily with my newly updat-ed, backup eight-let-ter/one-digit password-of-choice (which I will still probably forget). Th is time, it was the username that got me.

Of course “rob-in” wouldn’t work—I didn’t even attempt that. But I had created a handy new username, “alwayswrite,” that I have used before on other sites and consid-ered somewhat clever in a punny sort of way, and which I can actually remember.

So I keyed it in, but that one was taken. I could chose “I-alwayswrite-blog,” which completely loses the pun, or “awesomealwayswritelove,” which is an awful username. So, no. I could also choose “youralwayswrite,” which I would never, ever do, because your in this case should actually be the contrac-tion you’re, and I would rather melt my keyboard into a useless metal blob than choose a username that so defi les one of the most basic grammar rules.

I could, of course, revise the name to read “youralwayswritemother,” but that also blows the pun right out the win-dow. So, no.

Th e feeble fl icker of username cre-ativity that I possess had already been expunged upon the name “alwayswrite,” so I looked around for inspiration. My geraniums are still in bloom in the blue pot on my back deck, so I typed in, “ge-ranium.”

I was stunned to be informed that “someone has already claimed your username,” even when it was so com-pletely random, and I was off ered the names “geranium-things,” “a-gerani-um,” (both of which are stupid, I’m sure you agree), and “omg-geranium,” which is not only stupid, but juvenile. So, no.

Th rough-out this exer-cise, however, the Tumblr site off ered me a collec-tion of new and unsullied usernames, such as “SecretPhilosopherBouquet,” and “AtomicBluebirdFart,” which were admittedly tempting, but didn’t quite feel right. So, no.

Still on the fl ower theme, I tried “hon-eysucklerose,” but that was also taken. I could be “bat-honeysucklerose,” which doesn’t even make sense, or “honeysuck-lerose-stuff ,” which is equally inane. No, and no. Tumblr, meanwhile, of-fered me “TenaciousFuryStudent,” and

“UnadulteratedNin-jamoon,” but neither of those really defi ne me, so, no.

I was getting testy now. Our ample bowl-ful of Halloween candy prompted me to go all-out with “99%choc-olate,” a name which not only describes my diet, but also my fa-vorite Lindt choco-late bar. I came awful-ly close with that one, but was informed that “Tumblrname can only contain letters, num-bers and dashes,” al-though I could choose “omg99chocolate-

blog,” which again, for reasons men-tioned, I would never do.

On the suggestion of one of my twins, I typed in “99chocolate” and was fi nally admitted to an entirely new page, but then demurred, because I was not ready to abandon the qualifying “%.”

So I backtracked, and of course, had to start all over again. But I was re-warded with a new off ering: “Teenage-DoughnutEarthquake,” which my own teenage son thought fi t me perfectly, and which convinced me that check-ing out username suggestions on Tum-blr could become a habit.

Committed to my username deci-sion, I typed in “99percentchocolate,” which did indeed and at last work. But now I was forced to reveal my age (because Tumblr did not accept “old enough” and because I cannot tell a lie, not even to Tumblr). I then assured Tumblr that I am not a robot, and that was all it needed to know in order to present me with a veritable landslide of Tumblr accounts prime for the follow-ing.

It doesn’t understand. I’m only here to follow my son.

Robin Conte is a writer and mother of four who lives in Dunwoody. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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While many Atlanta-area high school students spent the summer lying out by the pool, Holy Spirit Pre-paratory School junior John Arnold was feeding hungry children. Last summer, John coordinated a community-wide lunch-making effort in partnership with Action Min-istries that made 300 lunch-es per week for disadvantaged children in College Park and East Point.

“I was so enthralled with this ministry because it struck me that there were children in this nation, a nation with so much global affluence and respect, who relied so heavily on the public school systems and private donations for some-thing as simple as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” John said.

During his sophomore year, John spent every Sunday and Tuesday night with his family making lunches for Ac-tion Ministries, but he was not satisfied with this level of commitment. Upon re-alizing that many children go hungry in the summer when they are unable to re-ceive free or reduced-cost lunches from school, John organized a weekly sand-wich-making mission in the main hall of Holy Spirit Catholic Church.

“I was the person going through the process of coordinating dates for sand-wich making, figuring out how many people could show up, actually making the lunches, as well as delivering all the lunches to the sites,” said John.

The sandwich-making ministry soon became a part of ONE Apostolate, Holy Spirit Prep’s community service organi-zation that serves the homeless. By the end of the summer, the initiative had

made 1,950 lunches for hungry chil-dren.

This school year, John is serving as president of ONE Apostolate. The sand-wich ministry is not as active during the school year, so the organization focuses

on volunteering at soup kitch-ens and sewing sleeping bags for the homeless.

When not engaging in community service, John is a competitive archer. He still finds time to excel academical-ly, too, and counts Latin, AP Calculus and AP U.S. History among his favorite classes.

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sor. “He is one of the best crit-ical thinkers I have taught during my career. John will be able to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. He has a strong work ethic, and he has a person-ality that inspires his peers to be excited and engaged in their work.”

“John’s maturity, respect for others and love of ideas is inspiring,” added John’s homeroom teacher, Archie Deen. “John’s ability to relate to all sections of our school community, and his respect-ful and engaging connection with his teachers speaks to the wonderful young man he has become.”

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gia, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Harvard and Yale. He hopes to take what he has learned through the sandwich ministry to college to operate a “feed the hungry” service group. He plans on a career in law.

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The only “dainty, girly” things about Brookhaven Police Officer Ce-leste Rausch when she’s on duty are her pink nails and a set of pink hand-cuffs on the dashboard of her patrol car.

“I ride a motorcycle [off duty]. I work part-time sports broadcast-ing for Turner Sports,” Rausch said. “I’ve done a lot of things—shoot guns—that are, in my head, male things to do.”

She admits she has a feminine side, though she said she only does her nails to keep from pick-ing at them. “I find that when I polish them I leave them alone for the most part and they don’t break as easily,” Rausch said. “I don’t do my hair or wear makeup on duty.”

As a female officer, Rausch is a rela-tive rarity among local cops. She is one of 11 women among the 70 officers in Brookhaven. In Sandy Springs, Lau-ren Ruffini is one of 11 female officers on the 125- officer force. In Buckhead. Atlanta Police Officer April White is one of 349 women among Atlanta’s 1,921 officers.

Until this month, Dunwoody’s de-partment hadn’t had a female officer since 2012.

Officer Rashida Moore joined Dun-woody Oct. 8 and was sworn in by the mayor at a City Council meeting Oct. 26. Police officials said few women ap-plied for a job and of the few who did, none were qualified.

In Sandy Springs, Ruffini started as a patrol officer in May, after the de-partment put her through the police academy to get certified. She said she had worked in the DeKalb County Jail and knew from Dunwoody officers that she wouldn’t get hired in that city because she wasn’t a sworn officer yet.

Women in police departments of-ten bring a sensitive and compassion-ate side to law enforcement, Ruffini said. “Having females is always an as-set,” Ruffini said. “We look at things differently.”

Ruffini said she and other women in policing would be called in cases in-volving children or victims of domes-tic abuse. “[Children] are more likely to respond to me than a male,” Ruffi-ni said. “I’ll hang out with the child while we try to find the adult.”

But Rausch said she thinks a po-lice force can effectively enforce and communicate with its citizens with-out having an officer to represent ev-

ery ethnicity, faith or gender.White disagrees. She said she be-

lieves a police force needs officers who represent the races, beliefs and gender

in the community they serve.

“Oftentimes, citizens are comfortable when they know the officer re-sponding understands their customs, practices and religion and can di-rectly relate to the situa-tion at hand,” White said.

Rausch said she won-dered if she had a skewed perception because the two agencies where she has worked as an officer had women in investiga-tive roles for sensitive sit-uations. She said she’s never felt her co-workers don’t respect her or that

suspects treat her differently because of her sex.

“I don’t know if it’s the motherly side of females—they seem to handle crimes that are serious crimes against females such as rape or crimes against kids,” Rausch said. “I don’t mean to seem sexist but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man in those positions, but this is only my second agency.”

White, on the other hand, argues compassion is the key.

“I believe it’s more about chemistry and experiences more than the sex of the individual,” White said. “Depend-ing upon the current traumatic situa-tion or due to past incidents, our main focus is making the victim comfort-able enough to share their story and bring the suspect(s) to justice.”

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Blogging and tweeting,Grogan becomes social media expert


Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Gro-gan employs social media to extend the reach of the long arm of the law.

“We started out using Twitter from Day One and quickly added Facebook and YouTube,” Grogan said.

As more police departments are recognizing the value of social me-dia – the Atlanta, Dunwoody, San-dy Springs and Brookhaven depart-ments all have Facebook and Twitter accounts – Grogan is becoming rec-ognized as a local expert on the sub-ject by blogging, training offi cers on

social media use and by publishing a book, “Twitter for Law Enforcement,” in July.

Brookhaven Police Offi cer Car-los Nino said Grogan visited that city in August to train about 20 offi cers in social media best practices for two hours. Th ose offi cers now follow Gro-gan’s “system,” Nino said. “We have mirrored Dunwoody’s use of social media.”

Nino said transparency was the big-gest takeaway from Grogan’s teaching. “We want to be as transparent as pos-

sible, especially during unique/diffi cult situations that we may encounter in our community,” Nino said.

Brookhaven recently added a Spanish Facebook page, and the Atlanta Police Department re-cently announced its use of Peri-scope, an application that al-lows police to live stream special events. Th e department later adds the video to its YouTube channel at youtube.com/user/AtlantaPo-liceDpt.

“We want to make sure that our citizens have multiple oppor-tunities to engage with us,” Chief George Turner said in a press re-lease. “Social media is an ideal platform to increase our commu-nity outreach and share how At-lanta offi cers are fi ghting crime.”

Grogan said his interest in so-cial media, coupled with his ex-pertise in law enforcement’s use of social media, led him to believe he could write his new book. Some colleagues encouraged him, Gro-gan said, and when he searched on Amazon he said he didn’t fi nd much in the way of educational books about social media for law enforce-ment.

“I read an article not too long ago that said something like 80 percent of the people in the United States want to write a book, but only 1 percent ever will, and so that was kind of why I did it,” he said. “It’s not the only book I plan to write.”

A colleague who met Grogan more than a decade ago bought Grogan’s “Twitter for Law Enforcement” on Amazon shortly after it published in July. Kennesaw Police Chief Bill West-enberger said he and Grogan worked together in “many ways over the years.”

“He cares deeply about the com-munity and always looks for ways to best serve,” Westenberger said. “He has made several presentations at sem-inars and panels on the topic [of so-cial media].”

Westenberger said Kennesaw po-lice found Grogan’s book on Twitter benefi cial, and believes other agencies would, too. “We wish the book would have been around when we began us-ing Twitter,” he said. “We could have saved a great deal of time and energy by having the book and learning best practices.”

Dunwoody City Councilman John Heneghan began his blog as a “sound-ing board” for local issues more than 15 years ago, he said. Heneghan said social media as a mass communica-tion tool for police has “far surpassed the days of a wanted poster at the lo-cal post offi ce.”

Grogan and offi cers who use the police department’s social media plat-forms have cultivated a following among Dunwoody residents and be-yond, Heneghan said. Th e police can “inform, warn or laugh at the realities of today’s existence,” he said.

Grogan said he’s always looked at

social media as an extension of com-munity policing. Citizen police acad-emies, ride-alongs and communi-ty meetings could only ever reach so many people, Grogan said, and reach-ing the wider community takes more eff ort. “Social media actually kind of evens the playing fi eld and makes what we’re doing available to everybody,” Grogan said.

Th e International Association of Chiefs of Police encouraged Grogan to write a social media blog in 2011, which he did monthly during the year. “I still [blog] today, but I don’t have to blog as often because now they have more people doing it,” he said.

Grogan said in addition to blogging he also speaks publicly on social media as a professional courtesy.

“Th e majority of time that I speak about social media, it’s at conferenc-es that I’m already attending,” Gro-gan said, such as at conferences for the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Po-lice and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

“I’ve always been interested in tech-nology and had been reading about social media,” Grogan said. “I think I might have had a MySpace account at one time.”

Twitter was barely a year old when Dunwoody incorporated in 2008, but Grogan said he had been tuned into the Internet throughout his career.

He said he started to focus on learn-ing about social media when he got to Dunwoody. Th e chief said he knew social media would allow the offi cers to learn about and connect with their community.

“It takes time to develop that re-lationship with your community. I started looking around and realized that a lot of people in our communi-ty are online, on the Internet, they’re blogging and very savvy, social-media-wise,” Grogan said.

ELLEN ELDRIDGE

Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Grogan said his department has been using Twitter since Day One.



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From police reports dated Oct. 9-22

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

curate.

ROBBERY 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On Oct. 9, a strong-arm robbery in the street was reported.

4600 block of Peachtree Place Park-way—On Oct. 18, robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

6800 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On Oct. 18, robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

BURGLARY First block of Perimeter Center East—

On Oct. 9 and 20, arrests were made for burglary.

5000 block of Winding Branch Drive—On Oct. 9, burglary was report-ed at a residence.

4700 block of North Peachtree Road—On Oct. 11, burglary was reported.

4900 block of Leisure Drive—On Oct. 11, burglary was reported at a residence.

6800 block of Peachtree-In-dustrial Boulevard—On Oct. 20, burglary was reported at a residence.

6000 block of Perimeter Trace East—On Oct. 21, burglary was re-ported at a residence.

AUTO THEFT 4500 block of Abercorn Avenue—On

Oct. 9, theft of a motor vehicle was re-ported.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On Oct. 12, theft of a motor ve-hicle was reported.

1800 block of Cotillion Drive—On Oct. 20, theft of a motor vehicle was re-ported.

THEFT/LARCENY 4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On Oct. 19 and 20, arrests were made for shoplifting.

4400 block of Ash-ford-Dunwoody Road—On Oct. 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 22, shoplifting and/or larceny was reported and/or arrests were made.

4500 block of Cham-blee-Dunwoody Road—On

Oct. 17, larceny was reported.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On Oct. 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 22, reports and/or arrests were made for shoplifting and/or larceny.

5300 block of Roberts Drive—On Oct. 9, larceny was reported.

2100 block of Lake Ridge Lane—On Oct. 9, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

1500 block of Lake Ridge Lane—On Oct. 9 and 10, theft of articles from a ve-hicle was reported.

1400 block of Mount Vernon Road—On Oct. 10, larceny was reported.

1500 block of Mount Vernon Road—On Oct. 17, theft of articles from a vehi-cle was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On Oct. 10, larceny from a building was reported; On Oct. 18, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

6800 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On Oct. 11, larceny was re-ported.

1100 block of Coronation Drive—On Oct. 13, larceny from a residential mail-box was reported; On Oct. 22, an arrest was made for larceny from a residential mailbox.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place—On Oct. 14, larceny was reported; On Oct. 15, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

2400 block of Jett Ferry Road—On Oct. 14, larceny was reported.

5700 block of Mill Trace Drive—On Oct. 14, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

10,000 block of Madison Drive—On Oct. 14, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

1200 block of Ashford Crossing—On Oct. 15, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

4800 block of Glaze Drive—On Oct.

17, shoplifting was reported.

5400 block of Woodsong Trail—On Oct. 17, larceny was reported.

1100 block of Aurora Court—On Oct. 22, an arrest was made for theft by receiv-ing stolen property.

ASSAULT 2600 block of Peeler Road—On Oct.

12, simple assault and battery was report-ed.

6300 block of Charleston Place—On Oct. 12, family battery was reported.

2000 block of Perimeter Trace—On Oct. 12, harassing communications were reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On Oct. 13, harassing communications were reported.

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