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Shoppers and artists filled the atrium of The Cathedral of St. Philip on Nov. 23 for the final day of the annual Work of Our Hands Artists Market. At left, volunteer Diane Rollins and customer Judy Bodner check out some pressed flower cards. Above right, artist Charles Shipp stands with his work. Below right, an ornamental ballerina dances on a tree branch. See another photo on page 13.
Santa’s got reindeer watching his sleigh, but shoppers at the mall best lock their cars and keep gifts out of plain sight, police say. With the arrival of Black Friday, the heralded start of the holiday shopping season, police in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs are shifting officers’ assignments and adding patrols to make their presence felt in high-volume shopping areas. Police say they want to be visible throughout the holiday season. Ralph Woolfolk, a spokesman for the Atlanta police, said the department offers officers overtime opportunities in a program called “Holiday Detail 2014.” That enables the department to keep more officers on the street. In Dunwoody and Brookhaven, police shift officer assignments as the need arises during the holidays. Police officers will also be out in uniform even when off duty, he said. “Chief [George] Turner requires all APD officers to wear full uniform, with few exceptions, during the holiday season, which enhances visibility throughout the city,” Woolfolk said. Sandy Springs police spokesman Ron Momon said more police from specialized SEE POLICING, PAGE 22
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Cindy Price remembers how her mother and her friends always looked forward to garden club meetings. “When it was garden club day, there would be a little spring in their step,” Price said. She was intrigued. So, in 1990, she joined the Ivy Garden Club of Atlanta herself. A few years ago, her daughter, Sarah, also joined. “We are three generations of gardeners who have been enjoying Ivy,” Price said proudly. And they aren’t the only north Atlanta family with more than one generation in the club, which celebrates its 75 birthday this year. Membership in “Ivy” – that seems to be the way long-term members talk of the club, as if it were an old friend everyone knows by its first name – sounds at times like a legacy to be handed down from mother to daughter. And three generations along, the club still has a waiting list of women who’d like to join. Ivy now counts about 125 members altogether, most of them from Buckhead, Sandy Springs or Vinings, said
club president Helen Stewart, who’s part of a mother-daughter membership pair herself. That total includes 50 “active” members. The number of active members stays constant -- no new active members are allowed in until one of the existing members resigns or otherwise changes status. Ivy grew up as part of a garden club movement that flowered across the country in the early 20th century, said Staci Catron, director of the Cherokee Garden Library at the Atlanta History Center, which keeps Ivy scrapbooks along with records from about 100 Atlanta clubs. Since Ivy was established in 1939, it has been involved in several high-profile Atlanta gardening projects, Catron said. Ivy members helped landscape the Wren’s Nest in west Atlanta, gardens in the East Lake area of the city and the herb garden at the history center’s Smith Family Farm. “They’re a big deal,” Catron said. “Ivy’s a good club. I like them a lot. They’re good ladies. They work hard.” What keeps the club going? “It’s a lovely bunch of women,” Phyllis Menser said. “It’s a wonderful group of women who do so much more than work in the garden or arrange flowers,” said Llewellyn Bell. “This group is not only talented. They are kind hearted.” They also enjoy one another’s company. During the club’s Nov. 18 meeting, about 80 women packed into a Buckhead home to socialize, have lunch and hear a presentation about flower arranging. “I really do love this group of women,” Stewart said. “I think what’s nice about it and unique to it is there are women of all ages. Many of us are in different life stages and that makes for a supportive group. The whole thing is just great. It’s a great garden club.”
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Miguel Cornejo remembers when only two lanes of Ga. 400 carried traffic in each direction, north and south. He recalls the wide grass median that divided the road then. He and his family moved into the Spalding Woods subdivision in 1981. His house stands across the street from houses that back up to the highway. In the early days, he said, when his wife drove their children to swim practice, “she was the only one going north” on Ga. 400. Things have changed. The two lanes of Ga. 400 headed in either direction became four, then five as during the peak travel hours. The road’s shoulders are now open to commuter traffic, he said. Nowadays, traffic on Ga. 400, Cornejo said, is “unbelievable.” “When I walk my dog on this [nearby] road,” he said, pointing to a side street near his home, “I use earphones in my iPod and I can feel Ga. 400 right at my feet.” That’s why he joined more than 200 residents Nov. 18 who gathered at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church to look over the proposed changes the Georgia Department of Transportation plans for a stretch of Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs and for the interchange between Ga. 400 and I-285. Cornejo wanted to tell GDOT officials they needed to install noise barriers between the road and his neighborhood. “I’m saying they needed sound barriers a long time ago,” he said. “They need sound barriers all the way to Northridge [Road]. Most of these areas do not have sound barriers.” Other residents offered other suggestions or questions for the GDOT officials who unveiled new wall maps of a proposed network of “collector and distributor” roads they propose building to get local traffic off Ga. 400 in hopes of easing traffic tie-ups.
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Their plans for the collector/distributor system call for about $330 million of construction along Ga. 400 from Hammond Road to just north of Spalding Drive. The project ties into a major transformation planned for the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange. The overall project is expected to cost about $1 billion. GDOT officials showed some proposed changes in the collector/distributor system since their last public presentation earlier this year. The new plans, GDOT spokeswoman Marlo Clowers said, add local traffic lanes alongside Ga. 400, include a “diverging diamond” interchange at Abernathy Road and a new design for the “flyover bridge” exit for the North Springs MARTA station. GDOT officials hope to start construction on the project in 2016 and complete the job in 2019. Cornejo welcomes the work. “The project itself, I’m all for it,” he said. “Ga. 400’s intersection with I-285 is a mess. Ga. 400 needs that project. Ga. 400 is a big parking lot at peak hours.” Other Sandy Springs residents at the meeting agreed. “My sense is it’ll be an improvement,” said Ronny Broyles, who lives and works at locations along the stretch of Ga. 400.
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We need water from the mighty Tennessee On Nov. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state of Florida’s motion to allow the equitable apportionment water sharing lawsuit against Georgia to move forward. Florida alleges that Georgia uses too much water in the Chattahoochee and Flint River basins without returning enough water for downstream use by Florida in the Apalachicola Bay. We do have strong arguments for why the U.S. Supreme Court should not move forward with the litigation, particularly since almost 70 percent of the water used by metro Atlanta is returned to the river for downstream use. Also persuasive is Georgia’s argument that the court should wait to decide this case because of the ongoing update to the master control manual for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint River basins by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In fact, the U.S. Solicitor General agreed, advising the Supreme Court that that Florida v. Georgia was a properly framed equitable apportionment case, but that the Court should consider accepting it but defer any further action until the Corps finishes its manual update. Because of this lawsuit and because Georgia continues to face a long-time water supply crisis, however, we need to move forward with efforts to secure additional water resources no matter the eventual outcome. The Supreme Court case combined with the Corps update will mean that water supply for metro Atlanta will likely be capped with existing resources. There are demand-side and supply-side solutions. On the demand side, Georgia has made great strides. With the passage of the Georgia Comprehensive Statewide Water Management Plan of 2008 during the last great drought and the more recent Georgia Water Stewardship Act of 2010, Georgia now has some of the most stringent water conservation efforts in the Southeast. In fact, our per capita water has been significantly reduced, and when the most stringent measures were in place, our usage was almost half per capita of what Alabama’s and Tennessee’s usage was. However, demand-side solutions alone will not be enough for us to continue to attract economic development and jobs to our region. We must have additional supply. Interbasin transfers of water are the way that most major cities in the U.S. have enough water supply (13 of the 16 largest metro areas and six of the seven cities larger than Atlanta use significant interbasin water transfers of water for supply.) The only interbasin transfer that makes sense for Atlanta is one from the enormous Tennessee River (seventh largest river in the U.S., with 15 times the flow volume of the Chattahoochee) and it would significantly help Florida (and Alabama) as well. The state of Florida has publicly called for Georgia to augment the Chattahoochee River and the very best way to do so is from the Tennessee. Environmentally, the actual effect on the river would be minimal. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s own website states
that “the Tennessee River is the nearest water body with enough volume” to meet the future needs of north Georgia, and it is Georgia water (1.6 billion gallons per day flow north from Georgia which is more than 7 percent of the flow). In fact, TVA’s 2004 Environmental Impact Statement found that interbasin transfers of more than 1 billion gallons a day would BRAD not significantly affect reservoir CARVER levels. Just half of that daily excess would completely meet all of GUEST COLUMN metro Atlanta’s water needs (and our downstream neighbors) for the next 100 years. Georgia has been disputing its border with Tennessee since 1818, when a flawed survey improperly sited the line one mile south of the mutually agreed upon border at the 35th parallel. Georgia never accepted the survey, but Tennessee did. Tennessee has since rebuffed or ignored 10 different attempts by Georgia to solve the issue. Rep. Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell) has introduced House Bill 4 which will allow interbasin transfers of water from the Tennessee River into metro Atlanta. In 2013, the Georgia General Assembly nearly unanimously passed House Resolution 4, a good faith effort designed to avoid litigation. This proposal would grant Georgia riparian rights to the Tennessee River by moving the border only at the Nickajack reservoir and recognizing the remainder of the flawed survey as the official boundary. Contrary to armchair legal scholars who dismiss our case, there is a litany of legal justification for Georgia’s claim, should it come to litigation. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on five state border disputes in the past 15 years and hundreds since the founding of our country. Whether we negotiate a deal or litigate, asserting our historic riparian rights to the mighty Tennessee would help prevent chronic flooding in the Tennessee River valley and provide extra water to Georgia, Alabama and Florida downstream of Atlanta. This is truly a regional solution to the Southeast’s water troubles. Let’s solve this problem together and leave the battles for the football field. Brad Carver, 42, is a partner and senior managing director of Government Affairs with the law firm of Hall Booth Smith, P.C. and is a major in the United States Army Reserves. He, his wife, Michelle, and their two boys live in North Buckhead where Michelle is on the Board of the North Buckhead Civic Association.
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Sandy Springs touts fly fishing on the chilly Chattahoochee River, walking trails that feel like they’re in the mountains, various parks and a museum dedicated to Anne Frank. Dunwoody promises the Dunwoody Nature Center and the Spruill Center for the Arts. But tourism experts from the two cities say those attractions aren’t the main reasons travelers visit Perimeter area communities. They come primarily for business travel. Or they visit Perimeter Mall, which draws about 18 million visitors a year to Dunwoody, or “Pill Hill,” the world-class medical center that includes Northside Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Children’s Healthcare. “Sandy Springs is not necessarily a tourist destination,” said Mayor Rusty Paul. “Our hospitality market is largely business driven.” Paul and tourism officials from the Perimeter area say they are trying to move beyond business travelers. Sandy Springs offers 18 hotels and Dunwoody has five more, and the message the communities now promote is to try to convince business travelers to “stay an extra day and enjoy the area.” “Our primary focus is on driving weekend demand,” said Katie Bishop, executive director of the Dunwoody Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. “Our hotels do very well during the week with corporate business and business travel. We see our mission as trying to fill the hotels on the weekend.” She said that since the bureau was formed in 2009 and started tracking numbers in 2010, weekend hotel occupancy has increased 18 percent. Sandy Springs anticipates $3.6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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When Ray Sonshein took a job at his dad’s trophy business 26 years ago, the company sold mostly plaques and the little plastic trophies that line the shelves of young ballplayers. Sonshein still stocks those youth league baseball and basketball trophies topped with players kicking soccer balls or swinging baseball bats, but he says they now make up only a tiny fraction of his business. These days, Metro Trophy Co. sells primarily the sorts of trophies that go to men and women, rather than boys and girls. JOE EARLE “We still do [sports] troRay Sonshein’s trophy business phies,” Sonshein said, “but handles more corporate awards that’s not our focus. ... We’ve moved away from Litthan sports awards these days. tle Leagues and schools and moved to corporate awards – employee products we sell now usually are much recognition and sales awards.” more impressive than they used to be.” Sonshein’s business has gone corpoThey cost more, too. Sonshein says rate. Metro Awards nowadays sells the prices can run from $25 up to hundreds kind of plaques, trophies and desktop of dollars, depending on the trophy. knicknacks that corporate managers and “From time to time, you can have a spebusiness owners hand out to recognize cial award that can run $1,000 a unit, but good work by their employees. that’s the exception,” he said. In the showroom in the front of his As his customers change, Sonhsein’s Sandy Springs-based business, walls and business is changing in other ways, too. shelves are crowded with awards made of When he started working with his dad at crystal, wood or polished metthe company’s shop, then on al and engraved with corporate Cheshire Bridge Road, he relogos. Plastic sports trophies P er imet er calls that it was just the two take up only a single, small of them and they barely had P r o f ile shelf at the rear of the store. enough room to move around. “It’s a lot different than it Sonshein said space was so was 20 to 30 years ago. The tight he had to stand up at his business community is using these types desk every time his dad, Irv Sonshein, of things -- and recognition -- as a motineeded to walk past. vational tool, which is important. Over Now the company employs three fullthe last 20 years, the designs have become timers and a part-timer, he said, and the much nicer, much more distinctive. I back shop has room for computers, comthink it’s a combination of the fact that puter-operated lasers and a sandblaster recognition is a more widely used tool [in with its own room. corporate settings], along with the ability And where the trophy business once to provide something that’s personalized was a drop-by-the-shop kind of enterand unique [as a keepsake].” prise, where customers knew their trophy Corporations, he said, have discovered providers personally, the business now is that employees respond to being noticed moving to the Internet. and honored for their work, he said. “The In December, Sonshein plans to roll value of an award is it stays out there,” out a new Metro Awards website he says he said. “No salesman wants to be the will act more like an online store than just top producer because we put that on a a place to see his wares. “The website will plaque, but because he wants that recogfunction more like a selling tool,” he said. nition. In business today, [recognition] is “We used the website more like a catalog, a tool. It really has value.” instead of a free-standing store.” At the same time, the awards themStill, the basics count. Even as techselves have changed. He still offers lovnology and a changing customer base ing cups and wall plaques, but there are retools the kinds of awards his compacolorful crystal or polished metal awards ny sells and how it sells them, all values that look more like desktop sculptures count, too. than prizes. “The industry has become a “You what the most important thing lot more sophisticated, with computers about any award is?” he asked. “Spelland lasers,” he said. “There’s a lot more ing the person’s name right. It’s the first creativity in making the products. ... The thing they look for.”
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The popular Atlanta-area café Souper Jenny will soon give Brookhaven a trial run. Jenny Levison plans on opening a “pop up” Souper Jenny’s location on Dec. 1 inside Nuts ‘n Berries, 4274 Peachtree Road, in the former Brookhaven Bistro location. Levison said she will give the spot a try for eight weeks, possibly extending that time, if it’s successful. “I love Brookhaven,” she said. “I always look for spots in the neighborhoods I like to hang out in.” Levison says she will decide soon whether to extend the time in Brookhaven and will know by Jan. 1 “if the location will work for us.” The “pop up” menu will include the café’s trademark healthy soups, salads, sandwiches and baked goods along with fresh juices from Juicy Jenny, Levison’s East Andrews Drive juice bar located near Souper Jenny in Buckhead. JOEL SILVERMAN The original Souper Jenny A “pop up” Souper Jenny location will opened in Buckhead in 1998, followed by Cafe Jonah on Pacappear in Brookhaven on Dec. 1. es Ferry Place in 2010. Levison opened Juicy Jenny in 2012, and in 2013 on the “Today Show” and “Dr. Oz.” ventured outside Buckhead to open the Levison says her ventures have been second Souper Jenny in Decatur. Levisuccessful for two reasons. son also recently announced plans for “I have an incredible team,” she said. another permanent Souper Jenny in At“I am very picky in my hiring and we lanta’s West Side on Huff Road. are a close knit team. Even at almost 50 She’s published two cookbooks, employees, I know everyone, and work “Souper Jenny Cooks!” and “Souper hard to keep everyone happy. I also love, Jenny Does Salad.” Levison has appeared love, love what I do.”
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million in total revenue from the tax in FY2015, while Dunwoody expects $2.3 million. Both have seen increases in the past couple of years. Bishop says her office uses a threepronged approach in marketing the city to weekend tourists. One strategy is a group sales effort that targets associations, faith-based organizations or social events that need weekend space. Another is a marketing strategy focused on positioning Dunwoody as a weekend getaway destination, highlighting dining, shopping, girls’ getaway weekends and shopping packages. “Atlanta is the draw,” Bishop said, when talking about the third strategy. “We always promote and tie ourselves to Atlanta. Visitors don’t see city lines.” She said Dunwoody is perfect for those who may want to experience what downtown Atlanta has to offer, while staying in a location that can be more affordable, is safe and has free parking. In Sandy Springs, its Hospitality and
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to the Georgia World Congress Center. Sandy Springs’ hotel sales tax rate is 7 percent, while Dunwoody’s is 5 percent, the minimum allowed by law. And both cities say that what works for one is good for the other. It doesn’t hurt Dunwoody that Sandy Springs has Pill Hill, and it doesn’t hurt Sandy Springs that Dunwoody has Perimeter Mall. Paul said that as the cities are trying to come together to look at how to market the Perimeter area from a business and development point of view, it’s likely they will together look at how to market hospitality and tourism in the area at some point. “It’s a friendly competition,” Bishop said of Dunwoody and its neighboring cities. “We recognize that none of us can stand on our own. Atlanta’s the draw, but each community around Atlanta has something unique to offer, so we want to work together and promote each other, because what we don’t have Roswell has, what Roswell or Marietta doesn’t have, Dunwoody or Sandy Springs does.”
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Sources: Cities of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody
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2011 $3.29
2012 $3.20
2013 $3.51
2014 $3.58
2015 budget $3.60
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Book Sale Wednesday, Dec. 10, 12-6 p.m. – Friends of the Northside Library hold a book sale. Dec. 10 for Friends members only. Free. Sale open to the public: Dec. 11, 2-6 p.m.; Dec. 13, 1-5 p.m. and Dec. 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Northside Branch Library, 3295 Northside Pkwy., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Call 404814-3508 or email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us for further details.
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Less Stress Wednesday, Dec. 3, 10-11 a.m. – TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation hosts “Mindful Meditation - Techniques to Aid Healing for the Breast Cancer Survivor.” Evidence has shown that stress reduction programs have positive and measurable effects on many health problems, including breast cancer. Free and open to survivors and their caregivers. 8010 Roswell Rd., Suite 120, Sandy Springs, 30350. RSVP to 770-360-9271 or staff@myturningpoint.org.
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Mental Health Forum Saturday, Dec. 13, 2-4:30 p.m. – Join others for an open discussion led by moderator Vikki Hankins with speakers who share their personal stories about mental illness. The forum aims to help end the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness, and open the door to solutions. Free. All
are welcome. Suggested audiences: elders, adults, college. Buckhead Branch Library, in the Meeting Room, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us or call 404-8143500 for details.
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Turtle Tours Saturday, Dec. 13, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Heritage
Sandy Springs’ “Turtle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for children ages 2-5, continues. In this program, join museum mascots Spring and Sandy, as they “celebrate the season.” Free; donations encouraged. No reservations required. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, email: kbrigance@heritagesandysprings.org, call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.
Winter Holiday Craft Saturday, Dec. 13, 1-4 p.m. – Children ages
5-12 can drop in any time with parents and caregivers to make a winter holiday craft. Free and open to all. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us or call 404-814-3500 to find out more.
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Family Musical Thursday, Dec. 4, 10:30 a.m. –The Mar-
cus Jewish Community Center Atlanta presents “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Laugh and sing along with Alexander’s misadventures in this one-act musical. Recommended for ages 4-10. Tickets, $10-$20. Additional shows: Dec. 7, 2 and 4 p.m.; Dec. 11, 10:30 a.m.; Dec. 14, 2 and 4 p.m. Morris & Rae Frank Theatre, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For information and tickets, visit: www.atlantajcc.org/boxoffice or call 678-812-4002.
High School Musical, Jr. Sunday, Dec. 14, 11 a.m. – The Epstein
School presents Disney’s “High School Musical, Jr.,” about the students of East High dealing with first love, friends and family, while balancing classes and extracurricular activities. Tickets: $10-$20. Additional shows: Dec. 14, 4 p.m.; Dec. 15, 4:30 p.m.; Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m. The Epstein School Playhouse, 335 Colewood Way, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-250-5600 or go to: www.epsteinatlanta.org to order tickets.
The Spud Brothers Sunday, Dec. 14, 4:30 p.m. – The Heri-
tage Winter Classics concert series continues with a holiday show performed by The Spud Brothers. Led by Celtic musician John Maschinot, the band celebrates traditions from the best of Old Ireland to the hollows of Appalachia. The trio plays Irish and Appalachian tunes, in addition to Christmas and holiday favorites. $5 per person. Heritage Hall, the lower level of Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. For details, call 404-851-9111 or email: events@heritagesandysprings.org.
HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS
Tied Up With Strings Friday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m. – Join the Atlanta Gay
Men’s Chorus as they launch the holiday season at The Cathedral of St. Philip. The 34th annual event features traditional carols to up-tempo holiday favorites, so there’s something for everyone. Additional shows, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 and 8 p.m. Ice cream social follows 2 p.m. show. General admission: $35; VIP admission: $45. Go to: www. voicesofnote.org/agmc to purchase tickets. 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Contact Hillary Jones at 404-365-1067 or hjones@stphilipscathedral.org for additional information.
Christmas Trees Saturday, Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. – Pick up your Christmas tree ordered from The Buckhead Optimist Club. New for 2014, trees, wreaths and garland must be pre-ordered online by Dec. 4 from: www.nbca.org/OptimistTreeSale.htm. Also available for pick up on Dec. 7, 1-4 p.m. No walk up sales. Trees, $35-$200; wreaths, $15 and up. Portion of profits benefit the Brookhaven Boys and Girls Club. Sara Smith Elementary School, 370 Old Ivy Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30342. Contact Susan Frierson at 404-261-0375 or via email: susanfspecfoods@bellsouth.net with questions.
German Christmas Market Saturday, Dec. 6, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. – Atlanta Inter-
national School holds its annual holiday experience! Market features refreshments, traditional beeswax candle dipping, craft activities for kids, photo opportunity with St. Nicholas, gift items from many vendors, live entertainment. Free admission and open to all. 2890 North Fulton Dr., Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-841-3840 or go to: www.aischool.org to learn more.
Family Day Saturday, Dec. 6, 12-2 p.m. – It’s Family Day at the Spruill Art Gallery! Check out the market’s locally-crafted gifts and décor while the kids get creative. Free and open to the community. Market hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Late night shopping until 8 p.m. Thursdays in December. Jewelry trunk show Dec. 13, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Market continues through Dec. 23. 4681 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30346. Call 770-394-4019 or visit: spruillgallery. blogspot.com for details.
A Christmas Story Saturday, Dec. 6, 6-8 p.m. – Walk into the
story of Bethlehem, enjoy the live nativity surrounded by music, angels on high, magi following the star, and shepherds with their sheep, goats and a donkey. Warm up and refresh with complimentary hot cider, hot cocoa and freshly baked cookies. Free, and all are welcome. Also open Sunday, Dec. 7, 6-8 p.m. St. John United Methodist Church, 550 Mt. Paran Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Call 404255-1384, email: serita@stjohnatlanta.org or visit: http://stjohnatlanta.org with questions.
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Global Gift Market Sunday, Dec. 7, 12-4 p.m. – Covenant Pres-
byterian Church hosts its annual Global Gift Market in the Fellowship Hall. Browse hand-crafted gifts, and fair trade food products and baskets. Free admission. The public is invited. Enjoy free, hot apple cider and cookies. The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus performs from 2-3 p.m. in the church sanctuary, $30 tickets available at the door. Market also open on Sunday, Dec. 14, 12-5:30 p.m., followed by Lessons and Carols at 6 p.m. 2461 Peachtree Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Go to: www.covenantpresbyterian.us or call 404237-0363 for information.
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odist Church presents “Carols by Candlelight: A Christmas Singa-long.” Experience the Christmas story through music and narration at a sing-a-long appropriate for all ages. Free and open to all. On Sunday Dec. 14, at 5:30 p.m., join PRUMC for its annual “The Many Moods of Christmas” concert, featuring their Chancel Choir, the Georgia Boy Choir, soloists and an orchestra. Open to the community. Childcare available. Free complimentary tickets by calling 404-240-8212. 3180 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Find out more: www. prumc.org.
Tree Lighting Thursday, Dec. 11, 6-8 p.m. – The Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce wants you to celebrate the season at “Light Up Brookhaven Holiday Tree Lighting.” Enjoy photos with Santa, music, refreshments. Free and open to the public. Briarwood Park, 2235 Briarwood Way, Brookhaven, 30319. Email: mike.vescio@brookhavenga.gov for further information.
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Holiday lights make communities sparkle Editor’s note: Hoping to be blinded by the holiday lights this year? During the past several Decembers, we have introduced our readers to the residents behind some of the biggest and brightest holiday yard displays in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. This year, we revisit some of our favorites from past years. (File photos.) 452 Grenock Circle, NE, Sandy Springs Greg Talbott says his annual holiday show features 22,000 lights, inflatables and plastic yard decorations. “Tell everybody to look for the glow in the sky,” he said. Why does he put it up year after year? “I just enjoy it,” he said. “The kids enjoy it. ... I guess you could call it a labor of love.”
4142 Randall Court, NW, Buckhead Dr. John H. Giesler says he may not set up quite as many inflatables in his yard this year as he has in years past, but his light show on Randall Court will continue. “It’s Christmas,” he said.
5431 Trowbridge Drive and the Redfield subvision, Dunwoody In past years, Alison Norris’ annual lakeside light show on Trowbridge Drive has attracted so many gawkers that at times she couldn’t even get down her driveway. Norris says she may dim her holiday display a bit this year, but says she still plans to decorate her yard and house.
901 Winall Down Road, Brookhaven Will Dr. Gary Gropper return his annual display of inflatables this year? “Is it the holidays?” he says. Gropper fills his yard at the corner of Winall Down and Peachtree-Dunwoody roads with 150 inflatables that in the past have included anything from snowmen to Santa Claus to the leg lamp from the movie “A Christmas Story.” This year he plans to add a new acquisition – a huge Mr. Potato Head with a bushy mustache that looks very much like its owner’s.
Meanwhile, if you’re looking for some true Hall of Fame holiday light displays, check out the Redfields subdivision in Dunwoody. The neighborhood holds a competition each year for the best-decorated homes. Neighbors vote on the displays on the Sunday before Christmas and give out awards in categories such as “best door” or “kids’ choice.” If someone takes the top prize three times, they are enshrined in the Redfield lights Hall of Fame.
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Six women sat around a folding table. They filled dough with eggplant to make a special holiday treat. And they talked. They were making burekas, a Turkish pastry they sell at Congregation Or VeShalom bake sales. As they worked, they talked of the old days and the old ways. “We’re all related in the synagogue,” Rachiel Berger said, joking that her family would advise against saying anything bad about anybody they knew because “you’re probably related.’” The six were among about 40 people gathered to prepare for Or VeShalom’s 39th annual Hanukkah Bazaar. The Brookhaven congregation is celebrating its 100th year this year. These women have known one another for years. Or VeShalom is a Sephardic synagogue, meaning members are descended from Jewish families that fled Spain in the 15th century. They departed after the government there tried to force Jews to convert to Christianity. “Many chose to leave,” Renee Feldman said. “They couldn’t go to Italy because it was Catholic, and they couldn’t go to France because it was also Catholic.” Those who didn’t go to England or Holland spread around the Mediterranean and settled in the Island of Rhodes area of Greece, and in Smyrna, Turkey, Feldman said. “We try to maintain Sephardic traditions,” Grace Benator said. “Instead of Yiddish, we speak Ladino,” which, she explains, is a Spanish-based language, whereas Yiddish is a German-based language. Food also differentiates Sephardic Jews from other Jewish groups, the women said. Women from Or VeShalom gather every Tuesday to bake burekas for the
The 39th annual Hanukkah Bazaar Congregation Or VeShalom 1681 N. Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319
Dec. 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Features kosher Mediterranean dishes and sweets.
synagogue. Benator said being a Sephardic Jew, to her, means enjoying Mediterranean food like the burekas she has been making with friends throughout her life. “The tradition of baking together came from when the women would gather to bake for the Sabbath,” Feldman said. “They would share and bake together, so that’s what we do. We didn’t have freezers and caterers in those days so you had to get together the week before and do all of the preparations.” In 1914, after a group from Turkey had formed a Sephardic synagogue and another group from Greece formed a separate Sephardic synagogue in the area, the two joined to create the current congregation, Benator said. “They just used to meet in homes for services,” she said, adding that the building where Congregation Or VeShalom exists currently on North Druid Hills Road is the third building the congregation has used as a synagogue. The original was on Central Avenue, she said. Betty Handmacher, who lives in Dunwoody, said her grandfather, Moreno Benbenisty, was one of the founders of Congregation Or VeShalom. “So was my father, Louis Cohen,” Sarah Diamond added, as she folded another bureka into its flag shape. Born in Atlanta in 1937, Rachiel Berger says all the women at the table that day were born within three years and three months of one another. Benator said her mother is the first cousin of Handmacher’s mother. Handmacher sat at the end of the table, manipulating a bureka so the eggplant filling wouldn’t spill out during baking. Berger explained that her grandfather on her mother’s side, who lived in Turkey, sent her father to America to avoid conscription into World War II. “It was time to go into the draft, and the regime was very anti-Semitic, so his father sent him to this country,” she said. While her father did return to Turkey before finally emigrating to the United States, Berger added that he was married nine years before he could afford to bring her mother to America. “It was about nine years before he could make enough money to bring back my mother and her younger brother,” Berger said. “They were in Turkey,
Grace Benator, left, and Renee Feldman make burekas.
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so my grandparents had, like, a second family. Can you imagine being married nine years before you could get your family together?” The women preparing for the Or VeShalom baking have known one another for years. Benator said that her mother-in-law and fellow baker Feldman’s father are sister and brother. Benator, Feldman and Stella Firestone’s families shared a duplex when the girls were growing up, with one family upstairs and the other downstairs. “When they wanted to talk on the phone, they’d knock on the wall with a broom and we’d pick up the phone,” Benator said. “We thought life was easy,” Feldman said. Firestone joked, “We didn’t realize we had it so bad.” “We used to hate going to Hebrew school,” Berger laughed as the other ladies chimed in about walking to Central Avenue four times a week. “We were petrified of the rabbi,” Berger said. “He was tough, but he was good.” The tradition continues, Berger said, with her granddaughter who helps make burekas. “She calls and says ‘Mimi, my bureka box is empty,’” Berger said. “She’s carrying on the tradition.” “There’s no such thing as a bad bureka,” Benator says from the other end of the table. She admits that some of them don’t look perfect, but said she believes the burekas and Mediterranean cuisine are what keeps people coming back. “It’s very authentic,” Benator said.
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units are reassigned to shopping areas. “We also typically have some of our community officers and citizen volunteers pass out holiday safety flyers in those areas as well,” Momon added. Police also are warning holiday shoppers to be careful to protect themselves from thieves. While increased police presence may deter some criminals and prevent crimes of opportunity, Dunwoody Traffic Enforcement Officer Christopher Irwin said people need to stay aware of their surroundings and take precautions like putting valuables inside the trunk of the car before going shopping (or to a place like a gym, where people commonly lock purses and laptops in trunks). “People go shopping and they’ll come out and put stuff in their trunk, but what people don’t realize is that
the criminals are actually out in the parking lots watching,” Irwin said. Officer Carlos Nino of Brookhaven said shoppers should let police know if they see anything suspicious. “The public is our extra set of eyes and if you see something, say something,” he said. Police said shoppers also need to protect themselves. Busy shopping areas, such as malls, grocery stores and shopping centers, typically increase off-duty officers to provide extra coverage during the holidays, but they can’t be everywhere, officers said. “The mall does have security; however, you can’t be everywhere at once. ‘Lock, take and hide’ is our motto,” Irwin said. During a recent morning patrol through the parking lot at Perimeter Mall, Irwin said five to 10 cars at a
new electronics and other gifts. Tips for staying safe • Consider alternate options such as oneduring holiday shopping time or multi-use disposable credit
cards or money orders to pay for your Police in Brookhaven, Buckhead, merchandise at online stores and aucDunwoody and Sandy Springs offer these tion sites. 10 suggestions for ways to stay safe this • If you are shopping with children, holiday season. Whether you’re going out make a plan in case you are separatof town or staying home to shop or to celed. Never let them go to the restroom ebrate, remember to stay aware of your alone. surroundings. • Shop with companies you know and trust. Check for background informa• Have your keys in hand when aption if you plan to buy from a new or proaching your vehicle. Check the back unfamiliar company. seat and around the car before getting • Avoid wearing expensive jewelry and in. avoid carrying a purse or wallet. They • Do not leave packages visible in your are the prime targets of criminals in car windows. Lock them in the trunk crowded shopping areas, transportation or, if possible, take them directly home. terminals, bus stops, on buses and oth• Set your home lights on a timer syser rapid transit. tem when you go out, or leave a light • Donate only to a recognized charitable or television on. organization. • After the holidays are over, don’t leave • Call 911 anytime you see something boxes on the curb. Cut them up and suspicious. fit them into trash or recycle them so --Ellen Eldridge criminals can’t take inventory of your
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Buckhead Police Blotter From police reports dated Nov. 2 through Nov. 15. The following information was provided to the Buckhead Reporter by the Zone 2 precinct of the Atlanta Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate.
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block of Cheshire Bridge Road— On Nov. 2, a bartender at the location asked a group to leave, and when they asked to see a manager, a fight broke out. The bartender was pushed, and he responded by punching a patron in the mouth. The patron was transported to Atlanta Medical for treatment; his lower left tooth was knocked out during the altercation.
ROB B ERY ( 16 TO TAL) 1300 block of Dupont Commons—On
Nov. 8, a car with two people inside was rear-ended while stopped at the intersection of Marietta Road and Dupont Commons. A man with a black semi-automatic pistol approached the driver as he got out to check the damage to the car. While pointing the gun at the driver’s face, the gunman demanded the man’s wallet, and
then started going through the center console. A second man from the gunman’s car walked around toward the passenger side of the car and saw children in the backseats. “Babies in the car,” he yelled, and the two ran back to their car and drove south on Marietta Road. A license, a Galaxy S4 cellphone, an America Express card, a Wells Fargo debit card, a Visa card and wallet was taken from the man. A purse containing a wallet, a license, a Galaxy S3 cellphone, two Chase Bank cards and a Wells Fargo card was taken from the passenger. 1700
block of Defoor Avenue—On Nov. 6, four men in a silver four-door sedan parked near two people standing in a parking lot. As one woman started to back away, a man left the rear driver’s side door and pointed a black handgun at her, saying “Give me your bag.” A second man holding a black handgun got out of the sedan and took her Coach bag, with a debit card, driver’s license and an iPhone, and an iPad.
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block of Holmes Street—On Nov. 2, four people in a four-door sedan pulled up to two people who were unpacking their car. “You know what time it is,” and “Don’t move,” they said with guns drawn. A woman held them at gunpoint while the other three people searched them. One man, wearing a gray hoodie, punched a man in the face, while taking his cellphone and a bag containing two pair of Air Jordan shoes. The man in the hoodie demanded the password to the phone. A wallet containing a driver’s license, Social Security card, $15, and a flip phone was taken from one person. A wallet containing a driver’s license; two pair of Air Jordan sneakers; a Wells Fargo debit card; $6; and a iPhone 5S were taken from the other person.
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the residents said he didn’t know anything about money. They stayed tied up for about an hour and a half while the men searched the apartment. One man got his hands free and jumped out of his bedroom window. He cut himself on the bushes as he landed, and then ran for help. The second man freed himself when he didn’t hear anyone in the apartment and ran to the door as police were entering the residence. A 47-inch television, an iPhone and a debit card were taken. 3300
block of Peachtree Road—On Nov. 6, three men entered a jewelry store. One of the men sprayed the security guard and then the owner with pepper spray. The men yelled out “robbery” and one man dropped a sledgehammer. They ran out of the store and were caught on camera exiting through a department store. They got into a silver or gold Dodge and drove away. A second robbery was reported Nov. 6 when two men with handguns approached a man in the parking lot from behind. “Give me your money,” they said, cursing. The man said he didn’t have any money and the gunmen left on foot.
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block of Liddell Drive—On Nov. 8, four men got out of a black sedan and approached another car in a parking lot. “Give me your wallet and cellphone,” one man said to the people in the other car. Two wallets with Georgia IDs and a cellphone were taken.
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block of Chantilly Drive NE— On Nov. 8, a man said his girlfriend asked him to take her to the store for chips and bottle water. Upon returning and exiting the vehicle, a man dressed in black attacked him and yelled, “Shut your mouth” and “Don’t move.” The woman tried to run and a man described as “chunky” yelled and cursed at her. The man dressed in black pointed a gun and struck the driver in the head with his fist, breaking his glasses, and dragged him to the ground. A second attacker entered the car and rummaged through the driver’s side. The two men took a wallet that contained $500 in cash, a debit card, credit cards and ID. Then they ran off, jumping the fence, and headed north on Chantilly Drive. A black plastic gun that was recovered on the ground next to the vehicle and two plastic bottles were submitted into property as evidence. The man was treated at Grady Hospital for lacerations on his hands and foot. The woman was not injured, but did not have any property taken from her.
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block of Cheshire Bridge Road—
On Nov. 5, police responded to a fight call and saw a man trying to leave the area. A man said the man trying leave had assaulted him and took his car keys from his hotel room. The man had the stolen car keys in his pocket and was belligerent to officers. He refused to answer questions and kicked an officer while being loaded into the transport wagon. 1300
block of Middlesex Avenue—On Nov. 7, a man armed with a Glock pistol approached people standing at the front door of a residence. He ordered them to “lay down in the front yard” and give him everything in their possession. He took licenses, two Apple iPhone 5 phones, an American Express card, a SunTrust debit card and a Visa card. When leaving, he told the people to keep looking down on the ground or he would shoot them. He walked east toward Middlesex Avenue. The cellphones were turned off when the owners attempted to track them.
1200
block of Fairmont Avenue—On Nov. 9, a woman was walking to her car when a red car pulled past her and made a U-turn. As she entered her car, two of the people got out. One had a handgun and demanded, “Give me everything you got,” while pointing the gun at her face. She gave the suspects her black and gold clutch purse that contained an ID, credit cards and an iPhone. The robbers reentered their vehicle and drove toward Howell Mill Road NW.
2100
block of Old Georgian Terrace NW—On Nov. 9, a man noticed a red vehicle behind him as he was attempting to back into his driveway. Several minutes went by and the man’s front door was kicked in and five men wearing hoods over their heads and surgical masks entered. The taller of the men pointed a gun at the man, while the other robbers went through the house turning over furniture and throwing items around. The resident was kicked and struck repeatedly with a brick wrapped in a shirt. A purse that contained car keys, credit cards, a license and an overnight bag with a Dell laptop, a second clutch purse containing credit cards, a license and vehicle keys to a 2008 Mazda CX-9, and an X-Box, a Nintendo, a Dell laptop, an HP laptop and a 30-inch television were also taken. The suspects fled in the victims’ vehicle, followed by the suspect vehicle.
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block of Huntington Road NW—On Nov. 9, four men in a burgundy car stopped in the road, and two got out and walked toward a person walking down the street. When she turned around, one of the men walked into the street toward her and said, “Give me your purse.” She gave up her purse and the men ran back up Huntington Road, got into their car and fled northbound on Peachtree. A purse that contained a Samsung Galaxy 5 cellphone, a scarf, a license, school ID and room key were taken.
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block of Hollywood Road—On Nov. 3, a bedroom window on the back of the house was broken with a rock. A television, cable router, laptop and some food items were taken.
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block of Commerce NW—On Nov. 7, a deadbolt lock was damaged and the residence ransacked. A Dell laptop, a Carnvio hard drive and a Wells Fargo and Chase checkbook were taken. The apart-
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Peachtree Park—On Nov. 7, the rear window screen of an apartment was torn off and someone entered through an unlocked window. A MacBook laptop and a Nikon D3000 camera were taken.
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block of 26th Street NW—On Nov. 6, a Samsung 60-inch flat screen television, a Phillips flat screen television, a Lenovo laptop, a pair of white gold diamond earrings, a pair of gold pearl clip on earrings, a Crown Royal bag that contained an unknown amount of change and $1,300 in currency were taken.
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