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Voters to decide on bonds for bridge, road fixes BY JOE EARLE AND COLLIN KELLEY Atlanta voters head to the polls March 17 to decide whether the city should issue $250 million in bonds to pay for repairs to its bridges, roads, sidewalks and public buildings. City officials want the Renew Atlanta 2015 Infrastructure Bond issue to be the first of a series of bond issues to be used to address nearly $1 billion in needed infrastructure repairs. They say the $250 million in 20-year bonds on the March 17 ballot will be financed through cost savings by the city and will not require a tax increase. SEE CITY, PAGE 7
From left, Jake Yamada, Brady Huesken, Charlie Suddath, Pearson Powell and Witt Grebe, members of the Northside Youth Organization baseball team “Giants,” get ready for practice at Chastain Park on Feb. 28. See additional photos on page 4.
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She ran around the world in 11 days BY JOE EARLE
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Seven marathons. Seven continents. Eleven days. You read that right. Seven 26.2-mile races scattered from Australia to Antarctica by way of Paris and Long Island, N.Y. On foot. That’s running a bit more than 183 miles over a period of about 264 hours. “It was awesome,” said Laura Frank Barnard, one of 36 runners from across the world who took part in the “Triple 7 Quest” in February. Their quest originally was supposed to be completed in a week. That’s the three “sevens” in the name – seven continents, seven races, seven days. And they would have made it, Barnard says, but the weather over the South Pole turned cranky and slowed things down before they could get that last race in. “Who runs seven marathons in seven days and flies around the world and doesn’t get to see the places?” the 50-year-old mother of four mused aloud one recent afternoon as she sat in the living room of her Sandy Springs home with a stack of race numbers, medals and website postings SEE SEVEN, PAGE 6
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