MAY 11 - 24, 2018 • VOL. 9 — NO. 10
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► CAC cuts ribbon on new facility to fight homelessness and hunger PAGE 2 ► Opioid epidemic summit explores solutions PAGE 20
New farmers market deemed ‘wildly successful’
BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
I have always wanted to be part of a new theater in Atlanta and I was ecstatic to be able to help form an original season with a brand-new company.
PHIL MOSIER
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What’s in a name? That’s what the mayor and City Council are now trying to determine. A new proposed policy on what and who public facilities can be named for and the process to do so was discussed last month and a vote on the policy could take place at the council’s May 21 meeting. Parks and Recreation Director Brent Walker told the council in April that the issue of naming new parks, streets, facilities and recreation areas came up with the recent opening of new parks and planned new facilities. In 2015, for example, the city held a contest to name the city’s park on Pernoshal Court. Low community participation in a name-the-park contest resulted in the city ditching the public’s suggestions and at first naming the site the Park at Pernoshal Court when it opened in See NAMING on page 13
OUT & ABOUT Sky-high fun returns for ‘Good Neighbor Day’ at PDK
City official’s career spans dancing to development BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
The job of Dunwoody’s top planning official doesn’t call for athletic leaps or pirouettes. But Richard McLeod danced his way to the position after a career jump from the world of ballet, where his international tours led him to fall in love with city planning. When McLeod was about 11, his mother suggested he and his two brothers take ballet lessons.
SHULER HENSLEY Associate Artistic Director of the new City Springs Theatre Company Page 4
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Naming rights for city streets, buildings up for discussion
Gail Zorn of Loganville’s Daybreak Farm arranges some of her garden-grown peonies at the newly revived Dunwoody Farmers Market, which debuted May 5 at Brook Run Park. Story and photos, p. 12.►
STANDOUT STUDENT Collecting video games for kids in hospitals
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