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MARCH 6 — MARCH 19, 2015 • VOL. 6 — NO. 5
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Two cities look to bring development to Winters Chapel Road area BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE
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Winters Chapel Road marks the boundary between Dunwoody and Peachtree Corners, and officials from those cities are starting to rethink development in the surrounding area. On Feb. 24, about 200 residents and city officials gathered at Winters Chapel United Methodist Church to offer ideas on the future of the area. They used boards, maps, Post-its, stickers and stars to record their preferences and comment on one another’s ideas. “I urge you to think big, because what we have now is unacceptable,” Dunwoody City Councilman Doug Thompson told the group. Glen Fuse said he’s lived in Dunwoody about a mile and a half from Winters Chapel Road for 17 years. One of the things he’d like to see in the area, he said, is a
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From left, Megan Fitzgerald, Caroline Day and Caroline Brinson, members of Dunwoody Junior Girl Scout Troop Number 11563, sell cookies at the Orchard Park Shopping Center on Feb. 28. Proceeds go toward a troop outing to the Georgia Aquarium later this year.
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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 con-
tinents, 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 to show she did just that. “It was cool.” Why did she do it? “I like to do things that are... unthinkable,” she said. Uncomfortable, too, at times, to hear her tell it. To SEE SEVEN, PAGE 27
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