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Scott Russel, with daughter Julia, 4, on board, enjoy the music of “The Tams,” during a Concerts by the Springs performance at Heritage Green in Sandy Springs on May 12. The 17th annual concert series opened its latest season to a capacity crowd.

The next concert is Sunday, June 2, and will feature Gwen Hughes & The Retro Jazz Kats.

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Artsapalooza permit stirs up hullabaloo

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As the city begins building its downtown along Roswell Road near I-285, the costs will likely mean fewer projects for other parts of the city.

Plans for building a downtown from scratch and an expected decline in tax collections will mean fewer sidwewalks and parks for city residents.

City Council members Chip Collins and Karen Meinzen McEnerny said during a May 7 budget hearing that some important projects won’t get done soon if the city’s current project list

A nonprofit that coordinated a recent arts event in Sandy Springs says the city plays favorites when issuing permits for events organized by members of City Council. Council members say they play by the rules and one of the council members called the allegations “hogwash.”

The Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces held its Artsapalooza event on April 20 and 21. The foundation applied for two permits to hold the event on Sandy Springs Circle. The city denied both because of concerns the event would affect traffic flow and access to

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Work to fix the “top end” of I-285 may still be years away, but City Council wants the project’s planners to know they’re not on board with some of the proposed solutions.

During its May 7 meeting, City Council rejected its own resolution that would have given state officials the OK to buy portions of Allen Park when the project starts moving. Council’s objections weren’t about the park, however.

Council members objected to passing a resolution that did not explicitly state its objection to one option of the multioption plan. That option, number 6-A, allows the state Department of Transportation to create an exit onto Sandy Springs Circle.

That would put an interstate exit in the middle of what will one day be the city’s redeveloped downtown. City Council said that plan is unacceptable.

“I don’t want this council to be on record stating anything that will be a positive thing for alternative 6-A,” Councilman Gabriel Sterling said before the vote to reject the resolution.

Plans to improve I-285 have been put under one roof as “Revive285,” a joint project between the state Department of Transportation and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority. Revive285 has hired ARCADIS as the planning consultant and employees of the firm recently updated City Council on the

project.

The planning process has been ongoing since 2006. The “top end” of I285 is the portion between the intersections of I-75 and I-85, much of it in the city’s front yard. The city’s approval of the resolution is one step in the process of completing the environmental impact statement required for the project.

The city’s downtown revitalization effort is ahead of Revive285. Sandy Springs this year has begun spending millions on what will be a decade’s worth of road and infrastructure improvements. Option 6-A would cost $2.84 billion, and planners haven’t identified a funding source.

ARCADIS Senior Transportation Planner Timothy Preece said the best case scenario would mean the I-285 improvements could begin in the next five years. Preece said a more realistic timeline is 10 to 15 years.

City Manager John McDonough told council before the vote that the city should pass something to provide input on the project. “I think even if we deny this, we owe them some type of feedback,” McDonough said.

“I think by denying this, we are going on record we are opposed to this,” Councilman Tibby DeJulio said.

City staff members are reworking the resolution to reflect the council’s position.

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A lawsuit over a historic cemetery soon will receive its first public hearing.

Fulton County Superior Judge Kimberly Adams will hear arguments in the case on May 29 at 1 p.m. The hearing will be to consider a motion for summary judgment filed by descendants of the Confederate veteran buried at the cemetery, Judge John Heard.

The hearing comes nearly a year after the file owner of the Heard Graves in the Heard Family Cemetery. A Family Cemetery sued local attorney is suing to build a house the city of Sandy Springs on the raw portion of the land. for denying a permit to build a home on an undeveloped portion of the property. hood effort to save the historic cemeJudge Heard dedicated the cemetery tery from a company that purchased in 1900 for his heirs. the tax deed.

The issue of whether the undeThe cemetery wound up on the developed portion contains unmarked linquent tax list by accident. Cemetergraves is one of many surrounding ies are tax exempt in Georgia. this complex case. The owner, ChrisMills’ lawsuit attracted widespread topher Mills, purchased the property attention and drew many descenfrom his in-laws after they bought it dants of Heard into the fray. The deby paying off back taxes on the parcel. scendants filed a motion for summary At the time, his in-laws, Henry and judgment asking the judge to return Wanda Cline, were part of a neighborthe cemetery to them.

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The long-time head of school at The Weber School will step down at the end of the 2013-14 year, the school announced.

Simcha Pearl joined the Sandy Springs school in 1997, serving as its first high school principal. The school was then known as The New Atlanta Jewish Community High School.

He became head of school in 2000, the school said in a May 8 press release.

“Dr. Pearl has focused on growing Weber’s enrollment, strengthening its academic and Judaics programs, overseeing its move to a new and permanent campus, and stabilizing Weber’s financial position,” the school said in its announcement. “Under Dr. Pearl’s leadership, Weber has evolved from a small Jewish day school of 19 students to a respected, values-based, college preparatory school of approximately 240 students with 550 alumni.”

In the school’s press release, Weber said the decision to leave was difficult for him.

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young people and seeing them stay connected to their Jewish values and become Jewish leaders, has been remarkable,” he said in the release. “But it’s time. … [Weber] is ready to move to the next stage in its life. And so am I.” Board chairman Lori Kagan Schwarz and school co-founder Steve Berman will chair a search committee that will work with a national search firm to find Pearl’s successor, the school said.

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City’s downtown plans drain budget Continued from page 1 to start giving some of this money back.” stands. Other council members said The biggest change in the FY 2014 changing the priority list would destroy budget is the cost of building the city’s a method meant to keep politics out of downtown. spending decisions.

This year the city is budgeting $13.5 City Council will vote on the Fismillion for its city center project, a decal Year 2014 budget in June. City staff cade-long effort expected to cost upmembers say there is $4.5 million availwards of $100 million. City staff is also able for citywide capital projects, the predicting a $3 million decline in tax smallest amount in six years. collections.

The projects, sometimes called “priSandy Springs’ method for selectority” projects, are a list of items that ing capital spending projects is unusuthe council wants to spend money on al compared with other cities. City electhrough any given budget. They include tions are this November. If the current things like road paving and traffic manbudget passes, council members will agement projects. have to explain to voters why the city The task of dividing up a smaller isn’t building their walking bridge or fixamount of money is ing up the tennis cencausing some council ter. members to secondTheir explanation guess how the counwill go something cil sets its spending like this: Each year priorities. during budget time, Councilman and city staff gives counMayor Pro Tem Tibcil members a list

by DeJulio, who of projects and asks is serving as maythem to rank each or while Mayor Eva one. City staff then Galambos recovbudgets accordingly. ers from surgery, In prior years, the said council memcouncil had more bers must make a money to spread hard choice this year. around the project He rejected Meinzen list. In Fiscal 2011, McEnerny’s suggesthe city budgettion that city staff ed $18 million. This “The only way we have take another look at year, Fiscal 2013, the to raise revenue that’s the numbers to find city budgeted $12.6 guaranteed right now more money. million.

“The only way we is to cut expenses or Meinzen have to raise reveMcEnerny and Colraise taxes, which we’re nue that’s guaranteed lins also asked if the not going to do.” right now is to cut city could spend less expenses or raise taxmoney on its down– Tibby DeJulio es, which we’re not town project. City Councilman and going to do,” DeJuManager John McMayor Pro Tem lio said. “I think our Donough said the staff has found what money will be needour staff is going to ed to buy additional find.” property and to pay Meinzen McEnerny and Collins arfor a project manager. gued that the city is putting too much Collins suggested pulling money out taxpayer money in reserves. This year’s of the Abernathy Greenway Linear Park budget proposal sets aside reserves toproject in Fiscal 2014 so Lost Corner taling 31 percent of the city’s operatPreserve won’t be left off the list. Lack ing expenses. In prior years, the city has of funds could keep Lost Corner from budgeted 25 percent of its operating exopening this year, he said. penses for its reserves.

“They’re telling me we don’t have City staff members and other counfunding for the completion of the drivecil members say they want to budget as way and parking lots,” Collins said. conservatively as possible this year and Pulling money out of Abernathy have money to cover unexpected costs. would be another setback for that park, Collins said the city already has enough which is already months behind schedin reserves to do that. ule.

“Stuffing all of your money under the Other city council members said mattress is conservative, too, but it’s not moving the money around would be innecessarily the smart thing,” Collins said. viting politics into the mix.

Meinzen McEnerny said the city “Essentially that just blows up our proprojects large surpluses each year and cess,” Councilman Gabriel Sterling said. should use it to benefit taxpayers.

“I’m sorry, I don’t think we should “The surpluses in the past have gotdeviate from a process we’ve done for ten to $12, $15, $20 million,” Meinzen seven years,” Councilwoman Dianne McEnerny said. “At some point we need Fries said.

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businesses. The city granted the group a permit to hold the festival on Lake Forrest Drive.

The foundation appealed the denials for Sandy Springs Circle. City Council on May 7 rejected those appeals, finding the denials were proper. Council members also cited a report released by the city that alleges AFFPS Vice President Randall Fox mistreated city staff.

“I find it offensive that anybody that applies for permits in our community believes it’s appropriate to be verbally abusive to staff on two separate occasions,” Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny said during the May 7 hearing. “ … I hope in the future professionals such as this should act in a professional manner to our staff.”

Fox, who didn’t attend the May 7 hearing and claims he wasn’t notified of it, disputed the report and accused the city of giving another event – the Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge bicycle race – more leeway because City Councilwoman Dianne Fries is one of its organizers.

The Challenge course traditionally has been on Sandy Springs Circle and the event lasts one day. Two council members, Fries and Gabriel Sterling, serve on the nonprofit board for the Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge race.

This year’s event took place May 5.

“I guess if I was a City Council member then I would have been ‘permitted for my event,’ much like Council Member Dianne Fries was,” Fox said in an email.

Fries called the allegation of preferential treatment “hogwash.”

“If anything, I go over and above because I think that it’s important that I follow our city guidelines,” Fries said.

Sterling also said the allegations are unfounded.

“We file all the exact same things.

We have to go through exactly all the same hoops and ladders as anybody else does,” he said. “I like the work that the guys over there do and the event over there on Lake Forrest was a success, as I understand.”

In 2012, Artsapalooza took place on Johnson Ferry Road. AFFPS applied for an event permit at the same location on Johnson Ferry Road for 2013, but the city denied that application. AFFPS submitted four permit applications in all, including the one the city approved for Lake Forrest Drive.

The city’s report on the dispute shows that there have been ongoing discussions about the event since October. The report claims Fox filed 59 open records requests since February and sent city staff 500 emails. The report accuses Fox of being “verbally abusive” to city staff when he visited City Hall.

According to a letter dated April 4, the city informed Fox it would not respond to any additional records requests un-

“I find it offensive that anybody that applies for permits in our community believes it’s appropriate to be verbally abusive to staff on two separate occasions.”

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til he paid $253.45 for records the city claims he didn’t pick up.

Fox disputed those numbers, saying he sent 60 emails and submitted 45 open records requests.

The problem with permitting events isn’t limited to Artsapalooza, Fox said.

Fox said several events have left the city over its permitting practices.

City Spokeswoman Sharon Kraun said the city permitted 59 events in 2012 compared with 76 in 2011, 78 in 2010, and 54 in 2009. Kraun said there are a number of factors that affect event permitting, from the economy to the weather.

Fox said he intends to continue pressing the city on this issue, though it isn’t clear what options he has. In his letters to the city, Fox implied he was seeking an attorney.

“The difference between me and the other events: I’m willing to stand up to the city,” Fox said in his email.

Art Sandy Springs President Cheri Morris, who attended some of the meetings with Fox and the city, said the dispute stemmed from Artsapalooza’s permit applications conflicting with an event at Heritage Sandy Springs, located just off Sandy Springs Circle.

“My understanding it was a matter of timing that Heritage Sandy Springs already had booked something by the time Artsapalooza had requested a permit,” Morris said. “On the south end, in general, the tenants on the south side don’t want the roads closed. Lake Forrest, according to the Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces, ended up being an unqualified success.”

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Back in the 1920s and 1930s, escharacter of the area and the likelihood teemed conservationist and environfor future similar development. mentalist Aldo Leopold was advocatCity Councilwoman Karen Meinzen ing for a common-sense management McEnerny has expressed opinions on of wildlife communities and the subsethe proposal saying that residents want quent relationship of man to the natua “balanced” development that will ral world; his beliefs are as relevant tobe a gateway from Atlanta into Sandy day as they were before.

Springs. She said the current proposal In the present, mass land developdoesn’t come close to achieving harmoment creeps beyond the cities’ limits ny with the neighborhoods. and results in fragmented areas. When “It’s going to require millions of development occurs without measured public sector improvements offsite to consideration of infrastructure capaciallow that kind of density,” she said. ties, transportation options and quali“It’s way over the top.” ty of life considerations, damage is caused, resulting in loss of character and use of the area.

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Special Inherent to this proA map showing the initial concept for a posal, traffic will signifimixed-use development near Chastain Park. cantly increase in the affected area. According to traffic studies, SSG will generate 8,900 At this very important juncture, we to 10,700 daily vehicular trips on nearshould be thinking about what kind of by streets. Roswell Road, Windsor vision we would like to see for the RoParkway and Wieuca Roads are already swell Road corridor. Land-use planclogged. Studies indicate a 22.5 perning should make areas more beneficent increase on Roswell Road at West cial, more attractive, less congested and Wieuca. more respectful of available land.

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Hunger doesn’t take a summer break When the Community Assistance Center (CAC) opened its doors in 1987 to help neighbors in need, it had a 2x8-foot food closet serving two to 10 families per day. I am sure the need was much greater, but our ability to help was very limited. Since then, that closet has grown to 2,000-square-feet and serves 80 to 100 families per day.

Today, we are much closer to understanding the degree of hunger in our community, but our capacity to serve still doesn’t meet the demand.

Hunger is primarily a result of poverty, and poverty is becoming more evident, even in prosperous American suburbs today. The 2008 economic slump added many households to the roster of the poor.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, one in six Americans struggle with hunger, and 16.7 million children younger than 18 in the United States live in households that are unable to consistently access enough nutritious food to develop properly.

Tamara Although food insecurity is harmful to any individual, it is particularly so to children, due to their Carrera increased vulnerability and its potential for long-term consequences.

According to Feed America, “Good nutrition, particularly in the first three years of life, is imporGuest Column tant in establishing a good foundation that has implications for a child’s future physical and mental health, academic achievement, and economic productivity. Unfortunately, food insecurity is an obstacle that threatens that critical foundation. Hunger prevents kids from reaching their full potential. It’s an epidemic that’s threatening America’s future.”

Households with limited resources utilize a variety of methods to help meet their food needs. Some participate in one or more of the federal food and nutritional assistance programs or obtain food from emergency food providers in their communities, such as CAC, to supplement the food they purchase.

Federal programs include: the Women Infant and Children’s (WIC) program; the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program; and finally the National School Lunch Program, where free or reduced-price lunches are made available to low-income students.

In Sandy Springs, 55 percent of public school students qualify for the National School Lunch Program, and in the Dunwoody middle and high schools, 32 percent of students qualify. Clearly, poverty is more present in the two cities that CAC serves than one might realize.

How has this community responded to hunger in its midst? It has responded with compassion and generosity. CAC’s food pantry is stocked daily by donations from congregations, businesses, civic organizations and many generous neighbors, who make sharing their food a regular exercise.

The pantry is further supplied by Second Helpings, a nonprofit effort started by volunteers at Temple Sinai to collect fresh and prepared food from markets, restaurants, schools and caterers, and make it available to local food pantries. With the advent of Second Helpings, CAC was able to increase its food distribution from once a month to once a week, and the nutritious quality of the food is a lot better.

Unfortunately, the current level of giving does not meet the daily needs for food for hungry neighbors. There is a need for more involvement from all, for additional food drives at the neighborhood level, from business and civic organizations, and a personal commitment to sharing a portion of our food budget with those less fortunate and not able to provide for their families.

Never is the reality of food insecurity more pronounced than in the summer, when children who get free meals at school are home and parents struggle to provide enough food to feed them.

CAC started its summer lunch program two years ago to help alleviate this problem. Donors pack bags with five, easy-to-prepare lunches and snacks that older children can prepare themselves while parents work. Donations to this program at this time are most welcome.

And to help raise awareness of hunger in our community, CAC will have its first Hunger Awareness Walk at the Food ‘n Fun Festival on Sunday, May 19, at the Morgan Falls Athletic Complex in Sandy Springs. Neighbors are invited to donate food, participate in the walk and the Shopping Cart Parade, and spend an afternoon of fun and games with their children. For more information please visit our website at www.ourcac.org.

Tamara Carrera is CEO/Executive Director of the Community Assistance Center.

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It would more appropriate to say they intend to “create” a downtown where one never existed.

We need a downtown like Wyoming needs a Naval base. Sandy Springs is a bedroom community to Atlanta and we should embrace that fact. Without

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Atlanta, Sandy Springs wouldn’t even be on the map. There is no here, here.

When put in the context of international travelers to world-class cities – New York, Paris, London, Istanbul – will a downtown Sandy Springs become a jet setter’s go-to destination?

I agree with an earlier writer who stated the purpose of our building a City Hall and government complex is to fulfill a Napoleonic desire by our

elected officials to pour their legacy in concrete. It will be their Arc de Triomphe. But, for the taxpayer, it will congest traffic, be costly to build, costlier to maintain, and remove prime real estate from the tax rolls.

The system we have now of renting commercial space as needed is ideal. Every 10 years, determine the most economically depressed area of the city and move the city offices there. It would pump tax money back into the community, uplift improvised areas, and encourage landlords to maintain their property.

As for the former Target store, sell it to a developer.

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Lovett headmaster examines Abraham Lincoln’s faith and the Gettysburg Address, two of Lincoln’s best-known statements of public policy, reach their 150th anniversaries this year, helping Around renew interTown est in writings and speechJOE EARLE es by the self-taught frontier lawyer who became a focus of national debate over slavery.

“He was such an unusual character,” Peebles said. “He taught himself Euclidean geometry! He taught himself how to survey.”

And as Peebles sees it, Lincoln thought hard and deep about religion. Faith was important to him. “I think it helped to shape his character,” Peebles said. “I think it helped to shape some pretty significant policies.”

Growing up on the edge of the country, Lincoln “was steeped in the hard-shell, predestination, Baptist tradition,” Peebles said. “But he really rebelled against that. By the Joe Earle standards of his day, he was pretty eclectic.”

Billy Peebles, headmaster of The The war seems to have chalLovett School, studies history, and is lenged Lincoln’s faith, Peebles fascinated by Abraham Lincoln. said. At times, Lincoln appears to have been a skeptic, Peebles American history. He led the northern said, but, just weeks before the president’s states to victory in the Civil War, a conassassination, he delivers his second inauflict that – partly through his words – regural address, which contains more than a made the country and the way we think half-dozen direct references to God. about it.

In times of both war and peace, many The war also changed Lincoln. The politicians come to believe that God is ways he changed are part of what interon their side. Lincoln “never fell victim ests Peebles. to that kind of self-righteousness,” PeePeebles studies history. In his first bles said. years as a teacher, he said, he started Instead, he articulated a belief that reading Lincoln’s writings. The young the Civil War “was so horrific because historian grew fascinated with the dead God was holding the whole country acpresident’s thoughts about God and recountable for slavery,” Peebles said. Even ligion. “He had a very nuanced faith,” the winners would lose.

Peebles said.

As he discussed Lincoln’s thoughts, On May 28, Peebles will present a Peebles turned to the bookshelves linpublic talk on Lincoln’s faith. His lecing a wall in his office at Lovett. They ture, titled “Abraham Lincoln: How His were filled with volumes on Lincoln and Faith Shaped Policy,” is scheduled to on the Civil War. He pulled down one begin at 7 p.m. at the Atlanta History book he had found particularly useful.

Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, and The title: “Abraham Lincoln, from Skepis sponsored by the center and the Bucktic to Prophet.” “That’s a great descriphead Heritage Society. Admission is free tion, right there,” Peebles said. for members of either group, but tickets In Lincoln’s writings, Peebles found a cost $15 for others. man “wrestling with himself” over religion This year has been sort of a “Year of and moral thinking as he tried to make Lincoln” in popular culture. Daniel Daysense of the horrors he saw all around him Lewis won an Oscar portraying Linas the nation fought its Civil War. coln in a blockbuster movie. (“I thought “There’s a lot of self-reflection,” Peeit was great,” Peebles said of the movbles said. “That’s unusual for anybody, ie.) The Emancipation Proclamation much less a president.”

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Peebles’ eyes light as he warms to his subject. He speaks quickly, jumping from topic to topic, enthusiasm building, as he recounts events from Lincoln’s life or discusses the 16th president’s writings.

“It’s just a great American story,” Peebles said one recent afternoon as he sat in his office at The Lovett School, where he has been headmaster for a decade. “[Lincoln] becomes a respected lawyer. He’s sought out all over the Midwest. But his great love is not the law.

It’s politics. The guy is a workhorse. He wrote all of his own speeches. He does all his own research. He did all his own edits.”

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Volunteers Hart Cobb, left, of Dunwoody United Methodist Church, and Bruce Richards of Temple Sinai, unload beds to be used by homeless families housed by Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb.

Local congregations provide housing for homeless families

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Penina Richards brought flowers. It Through the Family Promise projust happened to be Mother’s Day, and gram, member congregations provide she thought a few vases filled with litplaces where up to four homeless famtle roses, colored pink or peach or red, ilies can live for a week. The host conwould brighten these gregation supplies makeshift bedrooms volunteers who sleep Do you know an organization or and make them feel a over, provide meals bit more welcoming. and otherwise supindividual making a difference “These women port the families durin our community? Email coming in are mothing that week. The editor@reporternewspapers.net ers,” she said. “I’m families move from delighted to be here facility to facility, for them on Mother’s Day.” spending one week at one congregaRichards and her daughter, 17-yeartion, then moving on to another. old Marley, planned to stay the night “The tenets of our faith tell us to along with the four other families that care for those who are marginalized in were scheduled to arrive that aftersociety,” said Rabbi Bradley Levenberg noon. As they awaited their guests, the of Temple Sinai, who chairs the local Richards – Penina, her husband, Bruce, Family Promise board. “This is a great and Marley – spent the warm Sunopportunity for us to live our faith.” day afternoon turnThe original Faming a group of reliily Promise program gious classrooms at started about 25 Temple Sinai in Sanyears ago in New Jer“Why do this? There’s a dy Springs into bedsey, Levenberg said. need for it. There are rooms.

The interfaith orgaFor the next week, nization now claims families out there.” four of those bedabout 181 affiliatrooms would provide ed networks in 41 temporary homes for states, with 150,000 – bill hardison four homeless famvolunteers working executive director, Family ilies. “This room is in more than 5,000 promise their room for the congregations, acweek,” Penina said as cording to the Famshe moved in boxes ily Promise website. holding one family’s Networks have belongings. been established in communities large The Richards had volunteered to and small. About a dozen now operhelp set up the rooms and meet the ate in Georgia, said Bill Hardison, exfamilies as members of Family Promecutive director of Family Promise of ise of North Fulton/DeKalb, a new North Fulton/DeKalb. program organized by a dozen churchA representative of the nationes and synagogues spread across Sanal group came to the north metro area dy Springs, Dunwoody, Buckhead, Roabout 18 months ago, Levenberg said, swell and Alpharetta. and started meeting with representa-

Making a Difference From left, Penina and Marley Richards turn a classroom at Temple Sinai in Sandy Springs into a temporary home for a homeless family. Right, Family Promise Executive Director Bill Hardison.

These religious congregations are members of Family Promise of North Fulton/DeKalb:

tives of religious groups to convince them a local network was needed. The local congregations agreed. The group hired Hardison in January and hosted its first family in February.

“Why do this? There’s a need for it,” Hardison said. “There are families out there.”

“The basic premise is to solve homelessness one community at a time,” said Jenny Carter, director of finance at Dunwoody United Methodist Church, who volunteers with Family Promise.

Hardison works out of an office in the basement of St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody, where the program keeps a day room for the families. The room contains toys for young children, a waiting area, and a computer room adults can use to look for jobs.

The church also provides showers and a washer and dryer the families can use.

One thing that separates Family Promise from other homeless programs is that the program provides temporary housing for families, including fathers, mothers and children, representatives said.

“It’s an amazing thing to keep families together,” Penina Richards said as she rolled beds into classrooms that soon would become bedrooms.

The program also sets no age limit on the hosts, Levenberg said. That meant his daughter, Ilana, could stay over with him when he helped chaperone the first Family Promise family to stay at Temple Sinai.

“It was wonderful to be able to bring my daughter to do this with me,” he said. “The conversations afterward have power to be truly impactful. When we were going to sleep that night, she said, ‘They don’t look like poor people.’ We got into a tremendous conversation about what poor people look like. It helped her to understand her preconceived notions of who homeless people are.”

When the families were at Dun-

woody United Methodist, Carter felt sort of like they were guests in her own home. In fact, she found herself helping one of the children prepare a book report that was due at school the following morning.

“She got 100 on it,” Carter said. “She made sure to tell me the next night.”

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Church summer mission trips: See the world while helping out

By Melissa Weinman and Hilary Butschek A trip can change a life, but a mission trip sometimes can change a community.

Many local churches take mission trips in the summer. During the trips, church members volunteer their time helping people in another part of the country or world.

Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Sandy Springs schedules an annual mission trip to Zambia. Eight to 12 members of the church, both high school students and adults, visit Zambia each year.

“My first time going was in the summer of 2011, with my wife,” Rev. Joe B. Martin IV said. “Our lives were changed by that trip more than anything since becoming parents, from seeing the poverty and seeing the community in Zambia where everyone seems to put everyone else first.”

Schools, Martin said, are a cherished part of life for Zambian children, one that not everyone has the privilege to take part in.

One of the most surprising sights Martin recalls was “seeing children that sit beneath the windows of the school to hear what the teacher is saying.”

This year, the group will make the trip in mid-July for 2 1/2 weeks. They travel to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to volunteer to work in the schools.

“We visit the schools and play with kids,” said Barbara Hughes, a member of the church who has visited Zambia 15 times. “We usually spend two to three days with arts and crafts. When that’s all over, they know that someone cares about them.”

Every visit is different. Taking a trip to see far away “neighbors,” as Martin called the Zambians, benefits both the visitors and the visited. The importance of going on mission trips for the congregation, Martin said, is to build mutually-beneficial relationships.

A group from Dunwoody United Methodist Church has traveled to Brazil for a mission trip each summer since 2001 to build a summer camp for children.

“Our congregation motto is ‘We are blessed to be a blessing,’” Martin said. “We receive from these people, from their stories, a new spirit. We easily gain more from

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A couple of years ago, the church brought computers to the children in Zambia. “Now our students are Skyping with the students over there,” Hughes said. The group watched the first class of graduating Faith Works high school students, 43 in all, dance onto the stage to receive their diplomas.

Other churches also head to faraway places. Dunwoody United Methodist Church, for instance, has taken a trip to Brazil each summer since 2001.

Dick Murphy, head of international missions, said church members have been working to build a summer camp for impoverished children in a village outside Rio de Janeiro. Murphy said the day camp is a way to “get them out of the hot city and into the mountains, where it’s cooler, to enjoy nature and get them away from the drugs and violence of the favelas,” Murphy said, using the Portugese term for slums.

Dunwoody United Methodist Church has worked with a small Methodist congregation in the village of Sacra Familia during their trips. “It’s a pretty rich history we have. We have gotten very close to a lot of the community people of Sacra Familia,” Murphy said.

Murphy said the church is lucky to have been able to establish such a longstanding partnership in Brazil. “I think it takes a special situation to create that kind of longevity and connection,” he said.

This year, 17 people will be travel to Brazil from July 4 to July 15.

Murphy said the purpose of mission trips is both faith- and volunteer-based.

“The purpose there is to go out and to engage in other cultures and to share,

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Children from North Springs United Methodist Church visited Alabama in June 2012 to work in the community repairing homes.

obviously, your love of Christ with them,” Murphy said. “We don’t go as evangelism, we go as a construction group to offer help to those who don’t have it or need it.”

But he said the advantage of traveling to a different country is that volunteers are able to learn about differ-

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ent cultures.

“It also allows Americans to experience life in another country,” Murphy said. “It’s different than being a tourist, where you stay in nice places and see the highlights and move on. This is an enormous cultural exchange experience and it changes your life completely.”

Another church in Sandy Springs lic Church in Brookhaven will take 25 aims to make the lives of others better middle-school students on a five-day over the summer, but it doesn’t have to excursion to various charities in the Atgo as far to do it. North Springs United lanta area.

Methodist Church will travel to Nash“We feel like at about that age group ville, Tenn., in July to take part in the they are thinking a lot about themCenter for Student Missions program. selves,” Joy Baljet, a parent volunteer “We will learn about the city — who leads the group, said. “We just the unique issues and problems peowanted to show them that God has beple face, and what God is doing in the stowed all of these gifts for them, and city,” Leah Gaughan, director of youth they should share those.” ministry at the church, said in an email.

Throughout the week, the stuThe students then dents will visit Setake part in activities nior Connections specific to that city. in Chamblee to pre“Helping others and pare food for Meals “Our congregation giving back is what on Wheels and The motto is ‘We are blessed Elaine Clark Cenour calling from Jesus is all about,” ter for Exceptional to be a blessing.’”

Gaughan said. “So Children, where they we are committed to will participate in acloving our neighbor tivities with disabled – Rev. Joe B. Martin IV in any way we can.”

Mount Vernon children.

Presbyterian Church This year the The group will group will include also go to the Shrine seven young people of the Immacuand four adults who late Conception will collaborate with in downtown Atlocal ministries to serve the city. lanta to prepare and hand out about “These ministry sites will be work500 lunches to the homeless, and visit ing at a local, client choice food pantry, Buckhead Christian Ministry to work gardening on an urban farm and volunin its food pantry. teering at a homeless shelter and soup In any place, the mission is the same kitchen,” Gaughan said.

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History Center adds to its gardens with a new ‘front door’

By Tom Oder The Atlanta History Center is getting a new front door.

This door, however, won’t replace the one at McElreath Hall, the center’s main building, which houses a treasure trove of Atlanta’s historical records. This new entrance will be at the corner of Slaton Drive and West Paces Ferry Road.

The center is building a new pedestrian and garden entrance to its 33-acre forested campus at one of Buckhead’s busiest intersections. The new garden will be called Veterans Park to honor America’s servicemen and servicewomen.

Veterans Park will open to the public during a Memorial Day weekend program called Military Timeline. Set for Saturday, May 25, from 11 a.m. 4 p.m., the program will feature patriotic and family-oriented activities. Admission is free for visitors with a military ID and to History Center members. Nonmembers can attend as part of the cost of general admission to the History Center.

The History Center will formally dedicate Veterans Park in a public ceremony on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, at 5 p.m.

The new park will replace the green space that had been at the Slaton Drive and West Paces Ferry Road intersection

since 2000. That space, called Veterans Plaza, honored veterans of the Vietnam War. Veterans Park will honor men and women who served in World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and recent conflicts such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Larger than the original park, Veterans Park will include a walled contemplative garden, a water feature, a seating area, and stations where visitors can use QR codes on mobile phones to hear oral histories of veterans.

“With the redesign of Veterans Park, we are trying to become more accessible and relevant to nearby residents and visitors,” said Jackson McQuigg, vice president of properties for the History Center. In addition to being a new entrance, McQuigg said History Center officials are encouraging people who live and work nearby to bring their lunch to the park on a regular basis and enjoy the new space.

“Access to Veterans Park will be free and it will have free wi-fi,” McQuigg emphasized. “People can even park in the History Center parking deck and walk to Veterans Park. The History Center parking,” he added with a chuckle, “is also free.”

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Fragrant climbing New Dawn blush pink roses flower on a long serpentine wooden rose arbor, carpeting the path below with rose petals.

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Come to Gibbs Gardens for an exceptional garden experience enhanced by the music of strolling musicians. Gibbs Gardens presents “Music in the Gardens” on Sunday and Monday, May 26 & 27. Don’t miss “Red, White & Blooms” brass bands on July 4 & 6. An unforgettable experience awaits you at Gibbs Gardens.

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Veterans Park will honor those who served in both World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will include a walled, contemplative garden, a water feature, seating area and other ammenities.

“The new garden is in keeping with the History Center’s vision that gardens featuring native plants are as much a part of the state’s history as the manuscripts, maps and photographs in its research center,” said center spokesperson Leigh Massey.

The center offers 22 acres with five featured gardens, woodlands and nature trails that showcase the state’s horticultural history.

The most popular of the gardens, the

Smith Family Gardens, should be in glorious bloom Memorial Day weekend, said Sarah Roberts, the History Center’s historic gardens curator. This garden features an 1860s farm setting with flower and vegetable gardens, a slave’s garden, a fruit orchard and field crop area. Some farm animals are back after being away for several years. There are four sheep, including two lambs, a rooster and chickens that will help bring the farm experience alive.

out & about A stroller and wheelchair accessible trail leads to the other gardens: the quarry garden that features the state champion Franklin Tree (the largest Franklinia altamaha in cultivation in Georgia), long extinct in the wild; the lavish gardens of boxwoods and roses at the 1920s Swan House; the rhododendron garden featuring shade-loving plants that thrive in Atlanta; and the Asian-American garden of Japanese maples that is remarkable in any season but bursts with color in the fall.

Even with all the beautiful, rare and endangered plants to see in the gardens, one of the delights in strolling through the towering urban forest and listening to birds sing in the canopy is what visitors don’t see and hear. It doesn’t take long to forget that Buckhead’s office towers, glitzy shopping, dining spots and traffic on Peachtree and Roswell roads are located only several blocks away.

The Atlanta History Center

130 West Paces Ferry Road 404-814-4000 www.atlantahistorycenter.com Hours of Operation: Museum Monday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Sunday: Noon - 5:30 p.m. Gardens and grounds close at 5:15 p.m.

Swan House and Smith Family House tours Guided tours are scheduled by onsite admissions staff at time of arrival. Space is limited. For groups of 10 or more, call 404-814-4062. All tour times subject to change without notice.

Swan House Monday - Saturday: 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Sunday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Smith Family Farm Monday - Saturday: 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Sunday: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Kenan Research Center Wednesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday Tuesday: Closed Holidays: The History Center and Kenan Research Center are closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The History Center is open from 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Columbus Day.

Gardens and trails showcasing the Atlanta region’s horticultural history are among the main attractions at the Atlanta History Center. The trails are designed for stroller and wheelchair use, though access may be limited in places.

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Lenbrook resident John Snellings is one jazzy guy: he proficiently plays the tenor saxophone with a popular local trio. What’s more, he regularly takes lessons! “I want to keep improving,” says John.

Lenbrook is home to so many interesting people, like John. It’s a unique community that gives its residents opportunities to enrich themselves and grow. Lenbrook offers a wellness-focused lifestyle with on-site classes, dances, engaging speakers and entertainment…like smooth, weekly performances by John Snellings!

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This 3-acre garden shelters one of Georgia’s most comprehensive collections of native plants (almost 600 species). A pond and bog garden in the center of the quarry provides a habitat for unusual species, such as carnivorous plants and wild orchids, and a variety of birds and woodland creatures. If you’re lucky, perhaps the lady slipper orchids will be in bloom during your visit.

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A fenced vegetable garden, a plot devoted to corn and cotton, old-fashioned flowers, a farm house, slave quarters and a swept-dirt yard will take visitors back in time to see what life was like in 1860s Georgia. The children won’t want to miss the sheep.

Cherry Sims Asian-American Garden

Asian plants and their American counterparts co-mingle under towering trees in this informal woodland setting. Many plants will be familiar to visitors because they often are the backbone of Atlanta-area gardens. The most familiar plants will be Japanese maples and hydrangeas.

The 18th century-inspired landscape of this elegant and historic house features a pair of cloverleaf pools, cascading fountains, a terraced lawn and roses tumbling over a stone retaining wall. Bring your camera; the Swan House Garden is one of the most photographed sites in Atlanta.

Frank A. Smith Rhododendron Garden

Gardeners who have shaded landscapes will find inspiration in this garden. They will see how an abundance of shade-loving rhododendrons, small flowering trees, eclectic ground covers and giant elephant ears can flourish in shady spots. An intimate pond and a dry stream offer added reasons to linger in this garden, especially on a warm day.

Swan Woods Trail

Vestiges of terraced cotton fields abandoned a century ago are still visible along this trail through 10 acres of robust urban forest. Wildlife sightings will reward the watchful. Fern lovers will want to put Fern Circle on their don’t-miss list. It includes a collection of fern species and wildflowers native to the Georgia Piedmont. Also situated on the Swan Woods Trail is the Garden for Peace, part of an international gardens network dedicated to promoting peace.

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This trail links the gardens, grounds and historic houses. It was designed for families, and introduces children to weather, trees, plants, landscape and animals that are common to the Georgia region. Seven interactive discovery stations add to the learning experience. Be sure to spend some time at the overlook.

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Saturday, May 25, 9-11 a.m. – Tom and Huck

didn’t use fancy fishing gear on the Mississippi, nor will you on the Chattahoochee River! The park provides “river cane” fishing poles with a cork bobber and a hook waiting to be baited. So swing that hook out into the water, relax and wait for the bites! Youngsters may catch catfish, bream or bass. Dress for the weather; wear comfortable clothes, shoes and favorite fishing hat. Don’t forget a snack, insect repellent, sunscreen, and a camera to record the moment. Drinking water and restrooms available. $3 daily pass; or $25 annual pass. Reservations required by calling 678538-1200 or visiting: http://www.nps.gov. 1978 Island Ford Parkway, Sandy Springs, 30350.

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Monday, May 20, 7 p.m. – Come celebrate

the international ambience with music and dance representing the Commonwealth countries, including Africa, India, The Caribbean, England, Scotland, Wales, and much more. Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Enjoy the Downton Abbey tea room; the Atholl Highlanders Pipes & Drums; lots of classic British cars; games and races; and a kids’ area, with magic, croquet, temporary tattoos, free balloons and more. $8. Kids under 14 years, free, for a limited time. To learn more, email: rgilbert@empire-events.net or visit: http://empire-events.net. Oglethorpe University, 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319.

TAFEX Festival Sunday, May 26, 2-7 p.m. – TAFEX is the

annual African Experience Festival, a cultural display of live musical performances, fashion, African food, arts and crafts, games, kids’ area, and fun for the entire family. Free admission. Everyone is welcome. Come out and learn about African traditions and heritage at this one-day event! Brook Run Park, 4770 N. Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Register for your tickets at: www. tafexonline.com, and check on event updates and details. Call 877-436-3980 or email: tafex@apinke.com with questions.

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Vietnam Veterans Business Association announces the 2013 dedication of its Vietnam Memorial, this year honoring the memory of Major John L. Carroll, U.S. Air Force, a native of Dunwoody and a 1958 graduate of Marist School. Major Carroll made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in November 1972, and the public is invited to attend the ceremony.

Free. A reception follows. Marist School’s Hughes Spaulding Stadium, 3790 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For more information, contact Alan Gravel at 404-535-4342 or via email: agravel@ wilocon.com. www.avvba.org.

Let’s Recycle Saturday, June 1, 10 a.m.3 p.m. – Keep Atlanta Beautiful

sponsors the Buckhead Community Recycling Center for those interested in recycling items. The Center is open the first Saturday of each month, and accepts electronics, Styrofoam and latex paint, and also offers paper shredding services. There is a $10 charge for televisions. Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, 2715 Peachtree Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30305.

For more information about the acceptable items, go to: www.keepatlantabeautiful.org.

all the hard work of Franklin Pond Chamber Music’s “Fall Into Spring” coaches and students! Free and open to the public. Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-2523479, email: franklinpondcm@mindspring.com or go to: http://franklinpond.org for more details.

Jazz by the Springs Sunday, June 2, 7 p.m.

– Gwen Hughes & The Ret-

ro Jazz Kats heat up the stage at the upcoming Concerts by the Springs event. Free and open to the community. No pets. Picnic baskets, coolers and blankets are welcome; no outside tables. Additional food and beverages available for purchase. No smoking. Heritage Green, on the Sandy Springs Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org, call: 404-851-9111, ext. 4 or email: information@heritagesandysprings. org. To learn more about the band, go to: www.retrojazzkats.com.

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Jumping Dogs

Military Timeline

Monday, May 20, 7 p.m. – Dog trainer Len-

Saturday, May 25, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. – Spend a day in the company of veterans, and hear their stories of wartime through personal accounts and memorabilia. Living history interpreters represent soldiers of previous wars by showing authentic dress, equipment and vehicles. Appropriate for all ages. Program is free for Atlanta History Center members; included general admission for non-members. 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-8144000 or go to: www.atlantahistorycenter.com for additional information.

nox Gavin instructs you on how to keep “Rover” from jumping on your guests and friends. Learn how to control this unwelcome behavior. $25. Contact St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church’s Pet Ministry at 404-228-0753 or by email: petministry@stmartins.org to find out more. 3110 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Brookhaven, 30319.

Teen Drivers Wednesday, May 22, 6 p.m. – This free, two-

hour class helps parents and their new (or soon to be) teen drivers ages 14-16, learn what they need to do during the 40 hours of supervised practice driving time required by Georgia law. This program addresses driver attitude, knowledge and behavior of both the parent and the new teen driver. Topics include: motor vehicle crashes; understanding the licensing process and driving laws; coaching a new teen driver. A parent must accompany each teen.

Advance registration necessary. 7840 Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. For more information or a registration form, email: sandyspringsteeens@gmail. com or call 770-551-3291.

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Martial Arts Tuesday, May 28, 5 p.m. – Martial arts in-

structor Michael Issa discusses the history and benefits of martial arts. He also will give a demonstration and short lesson. Free and open to all. For adults, 18 and older. A screening of the martial arts film “Hero,” staring Jet Li, follows, from 6-7:45 p.m.

Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more details, call 770-512-4640.

Floral Design

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Thursday, May 23, 2-3 p.m. – Learn basic flo-

Wednesday, May 29, 1-2 p.m. – Nia blends the fun and funk of dance, the precision and power of yoga and martial arts, the focus of T’ai Chi, and the peace and calm of meditation to achieve overall fitness and self-healing - for body, mind and soul.

Invite your “inner dancer” to come out to play, and let every cell of your body feel the joy in Nia and in life. Free and open to Cancer Support Community members. RSVP required to 404-843-1880. 5775 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd., Bldg C, Suite 225, Atlanta, 30342. To become a member or to find out more, visit: www.cscatlanta.org.

ral design and arrangements for the home and special occasions. Bring your own materials, i.e., flowers, containers, moss, floral foam, etc. The instructor will only have limited supplies. Free and open to the public. Appropriate for seniors, 55 and older. Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, call 770-512-4640.

Carving a Niche Thursday, May 23, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – Wood-

carver Jerry Johnson has been honing his craft for more than 11 years. He demonstrates his skill and discusses the art of wood carving in support of the exhibit “Wit in Wood: The Folk Art of Moses Robinson” now at the Heritage Sandy Springs Museum. Open to all. Free; donations encouraged. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, NE, Sandy Springs, 30328.

For additional information, call 404-851-9111 x 2, email: kbrigance@heritagesandysprings.org or go to: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

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Genetic Testing Sunday, June 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. – What’s in your genes? The Marcus Jewish Community Center - Zaban Park offers genetic counseling and screenings for Jewish genetic diseases (JGDs). Free and open to the community. For more information contact Sandra Bass at 678-812-3798 or via email: sandra.bass@atlantajcc.org. 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

F u n d r a i s er s

Charity Fund 5K Saturday, May 25, 8-10 a.m. – The Chari-

ty Benevolent Fund Health, Wellness, & Memorial 5K Run/Walk gets under way at Chastain Park. The event promotes health and wellness in our communities, and salutes veterans for their service. $15; $20 on race day. Check-in at 7 a.m.; 5K Run/Walk starts at 8 a.m. Register at http://fundab.org. 4469 Stella Dr., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Email: cbf@fundab.org or call 478-986-4908 to find out more.

Relay for Life

Friday, May 31-June 1, 6 p.m.-6 a.m. – Join

the American Cancer Society in creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays by participating in the Relay For® Life of Vinings-Smyrna. Overnight community fundraising walk, where teams of people walk, camp out around a track. Food, games and activities. Live entertainment starts at 6 p.m. and runs until closing ceremony at 5:50 a.m., June 1. The Lovett School football field, 4075 Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30327. To register or learn more, visit: www.relayforlife.org.

Possum Trot 10K Saturday, June 1, 7 a.m. – The 35th annual Possum Trot 10K Race and 1 Mile Fun Run gets under way, benefiting the Chattahoochee Nature Center. The fast and flat course goes along the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, on a smooth, certified path allowing runners to get in condition for the 2013 Peachtree Road Race as well as qualify.

Register online at www.active.com, in person at Big Peach Running Company stores or mail to CNC: 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. $28 by May 30; onsite registration, $35 for 10K and $15 for Fun Run. Fun Run begins at 7 a.m. the 10K at 7:30 a.m. Registration limited to 1,500. Call 770-9922055 x 226 for additional information.

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EDUCATION

Soccer is all about teamwork

What sport inspires you the most?

By Emma McCabe The reason I play soccer is – and always has been – the team aspect.

When you’re on a team with so many other girls who share the same passion as you, it’s easy to form inseparable bonds. Those bonds last even after you stop playing together.

Playing soccer has taught me lifelong skills that I can put to use on and off the field. You have to learn to work with others, to push yourself, and to always give it everything you’ve got. Soccer also helps to focus in the classroom, which has really paid off for me.

When you and your team succeed, you are reminded why you work so hard and spend so much time playing. This year, my Riverwood International Charter High School team was 10-0 in the region, and region champions for the second time in school history. We faced adversity head-on and really learned to work together, especially when it became essential at game time.

Another reason I am passionate about the sport is because it reminds me to focus on where I want

Spring is at hand. Summer is close behind. And as the days grow longer and warmer, it’s time to head outside and engage in some healthy play.

In short, it’s a good time to pick a sport and to take a run at it.

But how can we decide which sport to tackle this summer? We decided a good way to survey the field of play would be to check in with some of the athletes among our high school interns. They attend various high schools in Reporter Newspaper communities.

They eagerly pursue sports activities, both in and out of school, and dedicate hours of hard work to their chosen sports.

The games they pursue vary widely, from the traditional sport of soccer to the very untraditional game of Quidditch, which it appears has moved from bookbound fantasy to scuff-kneed reality. We asked our young writers to explain why they gravitated to a particular sport.

Here’s what they had to say.

to take my life. I always know that no matter what’s currently going on in my life, once I step on the field and feel the support of my teammates, I can forget everything and focus solely on the game.

Sometimes during the season, when I feel it’s too hard to balance everything, I need to be reminded why I work so hard for the game.

When I step on the field and play with passion and dedication, I feel so alive and confident in what I’m doing.

Probably of the best life lessons soccer has taught me is to do everything with confidence because you’ll be more likely to succeed.

This season, we’ve been inspired by a quote from soccer star Mia Hamm: “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back…Play for her.

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Emma McCabe is a student at Riverwood International Charter High School.

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I started swimming the summer after sixth grade for the Chastain Tidal Waves, but stopped soon after. I swam a little in school for my Physical Education class and then on the beach in the summers, but I didn’t join a swim team again until this year for the Atlanta International School Eagles.

I decided to join the swim team for a new challenge. I wanted to try somespecial thing new and do Felipa Schmidt swims the 100-meter freestyle my best to succeed. for the first time, during the Madeline Jude This spark of inBrown Invitational at Emory University. terest came from watching professional swimmers race for the gold medready to swim and kept telling myself to al in the London Summer Olympics in at least try it and have fun with it.

2012. I realized that I wanted to swim My time at the end was not someagain, not just for fun but also with a thing amazing. I ended up second to last team. I wanted that family feeling that I in my heat, but I was happy with the saw on the TV screen. So, I joined the fact that I pulled through and finished swim team at my school in 11th grade. the race.

I was nervous before every practice By the end of the season, I improved and I always wondered if joining the my time by roughly 4 seconds in the swim team was the right thing to do. I 100-meter freestyle and 5 seconds in got my answer once I went to my first 50-meter freestyle. I was proud of myself swim meet. that I stayed with something until the I felt the rush of swimming a 50-meend and that I succeed at a new activity. ter freestyle race and then a 4x100 freeThe atmosphere of swim events was style relay. Afterward, I felt great, like I an adrenaline and to be a part of saferush • gentle • thorough had undertaken a challenge. I went to that rush was even better. I won the the meets and swam 50-meter freestyle school award for “Most Improved and 100-meter freestyle as my events, Swimmer” after the season ended and improving my time little by little. also grew closer to my teammates.

During a meet at the Cumming AthI will definitely return to swimming letic Center, I swam the 100-meter next year for another season and maybe breast stroke, an event that I had neveven improve my times. er participated in before. I was extremely nervous and was not very comfortable Felipa Schmidt is a student at Atlanta with the stroke. But I still found myself International School.

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Cheerleading does more than just raise spirits

By Stacy Bubes Cheerleading has been a been the previous year. But I dream of mine for as long as I grew to enjoy it more and more can remember. My older sister every year. My hard work paid was a cheerleader. Upon accepoff, and I was a member of the tance at Holy Innocents’ Episcobasketball squad throughout all pal School, I knew that I wantof high school. ed to be one too. I did not realize Cheerleaders have many jobs. how big of First, we are a role cheertreated the leading would same as all play in my other sports high school “The friends and memories teams.

We experience. have practice that I made as a result I tried every day of of this sport will always out during the week, two be a part of who I am.” the spring of of which we eighth grade. work out with Many were the school – stacy bubes experienced trainer. We in the sport, holy innocents’ cheerleader travel to The while others University of were just as Georgia for new as I was. a three-day Tryout week was stressful and insummer camp. timidating. We learned a dance, Our main goal is to cheer for cheer, and chant, all of which we the players, and raise the spirpracticed throughout the week. it level among the school comThen, on Friday, we were sent munity. Throughout the season, into the gym in groups of three we make signs to hang around to perform what we had learned the school, give out stickers, and for judges. cheer at carpool on game day Each year, tryouts proved to mornings. be just as stressful as they had While we cheer at all games,

home and away, Winterfest is the biggest event of the season. The week consists of a hallway-decorating contest between grades, as well as various dressup days. There is a theme, which changes every year.

The captains and seniors of the squad create the Winterfest routine, which we perform during an all-school pep rally as well as during halftime of the Varsity Boys Basketball game.

The cheerleaders work on this routine for about two months. This performance defines our squad for the year.

Not only does it reveal how physically challenging our stunts are, or how high we can jump, but it also shows our ability to work together and improve throughout the years.

I was voted captain of our Varsity Basketball Cheerleading Squad this year. Being selected by my peers made me realize how much this sport meant to me. The friends and memories that I made as a result of this sport will always be a part of who I am.

Stacy Bubes is a student at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School.

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From left, Jordan McBride, Lindsey Klopfenstein, Cory Philipson, Alexandra Juneau and Stacy Bubes, five Varsity Basketball Cheerleaders at Holy Innocents’.

Quidditch: A real sport for the real world

By Blake Flournoy If you’ve paid much attention to the a group at Middlebury College in Vermedia world at any point between 1997 mont adapted the first draft of rules and 2011, chances are good that you from the book. The game’s rules are, know at least something about the Harand have always been, pretty simple. For ry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowstarters, each player must always have a ling, or the eight movie adaptations of broom between his or her legs. the novels.

The “Golden And if you know Snitch” – a flying about Harry Potter, ball in the movies – you probably know is played by a per“If you were to ask at least something son. Seekers have to me why I love playing about Quidditch, “snatch” the Snitch the premier sport of Quidditch, I’d have to say by playing what is esthe wizarding world sentially the world’s that I love the insanity that the series takes most manic game of of the whole affair.” place in, with all of tag. its magic and flying The game was – blake flournoy brooms and golden a hit, and within riverwood international snitch snatching. weeks the rules were charter school student It may sound silly, spreading across colbut the sport is not lege campuses. Ever confined to the pagsince, the sport has es of fantasy books. Quidditch is a real blossomed into an international sensasport that you can play and it is played tion, to the point that there is an Interworldwide. Magic doesn’t have as great a national Quidditch Association (IQA) hand in the game’s procedures as much that handles the distribution of rules, as imagination and a drive to have fun organizes various national leagues (yes, do, but the game exists, and I, like quite there are international Quidditch World a few others, play it.

Cups), and admits new teams.

Believe it or not, the sport is more seTeams can be formed at the high rious than you would think. school and college levels, though there Real-world play began in 2005, when have been a few unofficial middle-school

teams.

If you were to ask me why I love playing Quidditch, I’d have to say that I love the insanity of the whole affair. The game isn’t made to be serious. It’s made to be fun for all involved and to promote friendship between teams.

At my first organized game, my team and I took a break between games to teach the elementary school kids in the audience how to play. And that special was shortly after Blake Flournoy shows off her Quidditch skills. befriending our opponents from the last round!

Which is exactly why I love QuidIt’s a sight to see, Quidditch. Being ditch – it only makes sense while you’re on the field with friends, seeing your on the field playing it.

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EDUCATION

Weber takes national championship for fourth time

By Melissa Weinman

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The Weber School’s Moot Beit Din team has once again proved its scholarly prowess, using its knowledge of ancient Jewish law to win a national rabbinic mock trial competition.

Weber beat 22 other teams from the United States and Canada to win this year’s national Moot Beit Din, held in Philadelphia April 18-21.

But the Weber School is no stranger to victory. The school’s team has been the national champion four times over the past five years.

The five-member team from Weber acts as a Moot Beit Din, or rabbinic court, and uses Jewish law, known as the Talmud, to come up with a solution to a dilemma.

Though the answers come from ancient texts, the dilemmas deal with issues of modern relevance, such as bioethics, terrorism and Jewish-Christian relations, said Marc Levinthal, a teacher at Weber and the advisor for the Moot Beit Din. “We’re always concerned about bringing present-day relevance to the Talmud, which is 2,000 years old,” Levinthal said. “This is the epitome.”

This year’s case involved the question

of whether a Jew could participate in a Catholic wedding. The team was given three months to develop a written opinion.

Based upon their research, the students argued that the traditional law would allow for the individual to attend the wedding as an onlooker, but not as a bridesmaid.

“You’re given no sources, just the case. We had to find our own sources,” said Daniel Gordon, a member of the team. “We wrote a 10-page argument, which took hours and hours.”

The students put in a lot of work, researching, citing their sources, and ultimately writing their opinion.

“We had a lot of after school meetings during first semester, Sunday meetings, lunch meetings,” said team member Daniela Friedman. “We went to our teacher’s house over winter break.”

The research can be challenging, but the students said it encourages them to think critically to put together a strong argument.

“A lot of times you find commentaries that oppose one another, so you have to decide how to value each one,” said Adina Karpugh. “I think a lot of us were

really surprised with our conclusion. I didn’t think we’d end up where we did.”

Levinthal said the thing that makes the Moot Beit Din competitions so challenging is the material that the students have to sift through, which often is in a medieval Hebrew that can be difficult special to translate. And From left, Daniel Gordon, Adina Karpuj, Hillel Levinthal said the Brenner, Daniela Friedman and Ilan Palte, Talmud is not as members of the Weber School’s Moot Beit Din well-organized as team, which captured a national championship secular codes of for the fourth time in five years. law.

“It often is not out there in black and “The difference white. They often have to see contradicbeing that lawyers practice in one juristions between rabbis. They have to analdiction, the codes of law are organized ogize,” Levinthal said. and indexed very well over a short peThough it’s a lot of extra work, the riod of time,” he said. “When you’re restudents on the team enjoy the chalsearching Jewish law, you’re researching lenge. voluminous texts over 2,000 years, of“It’s a serious commitment if you ten without any indexing, codification.” want to be part of it. But you end up And the students have to make deciloving it,” Gordon said. sions for themselves, he said.

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Standout Student

Student Profile:

Abigail Van Horn Senior, The Lovett School If Abigail Van Horn asks if she shall “compare thee to a summer’s day,” it is not because of a yearning for the end of the school year. Instead, it is because she means business.

At the end of April, Abigail placed as a semi-finalist in the 30th season of the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition after performing Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and a monologue from “Much Ado About Nothing.” She performed on the Vivian Beaumont stage at Lincoln Center.

“Who gets to say that they performed on a Broadway stage when they were 18?” Abigail said of her experience.

Abigail earned her chance to compete at the national level after becoming the first-ever Lovett student to win the Atlanta branch competition, which was judged by professional actors and actresses. She beat 28 other competitors, including the second place finisher, fellow Lovett student Bryony Berry.

During her all-expenses-paid trip to New York City, Abigail got to see a modern rendition of “Julius Caesar,” sit in on a course at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and meet the nearly 60 other competitors from across the country and Mexico.

Why does she study Shakespeare? “I like how complicated his characters are,” Abigail said. “We learned in school and in theater that a character really isn’t believable unless they are incredibly complex and insane, and I think he does a really good job of making characters like that.”

Abigail also felt that the pieces she competed with were well-fitted to her

personality.

“She has wonderful stage presence and confidence which translate beautifully in the characters she creates on the stage,” said her coach for the competition, Eric Brannen.

Leading up to the nationals, Abigail practiced daily with Brannen, who joined her in New York.

“Everybody was brilliant at what they did, and it was just really nice to be surrounded by that talent,” said Abigail of the competition.

While the scope of her recent performance was new, she is no stranger to the stage, and has participated in many of Lovett’s school productions, from “The Sound of Music” to “My Fair Lady,” and has acted in a few commercials.

The only drawback to Abigail’s trip was that she had to miss her regional golf tournament. Abigail is the Lovett girls’ golf team captain and has been on the varsity team throughout her four years of high school.

In addition to golf and acting, Abigail is a cheerleader and enjoys singing.

While her favorite subjects are Advanced Placement music theory, and astronomy and astrophysics, her passion still lies in acting.

“I think that anytime you have a chance to perform, you should take it, because it really helps you grow as a person,” said Abigail.

What’s Next: Abigail plans to attend Pepperdine University in the fall. She hopes to continue acting and is interested in studying psychology or fashion design.

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Standout Student

Student Profile:

Eukyung Yang Senior, Riverwood International Charter High School When Eukyung Yang, who also goes by Jennifer, was 10 years old, she moved from Korea to Florida. She didn’t know a single word of English.

She turned to math.

“When you don’t know English, numbers are the only things that make sense. It really is a universal language,” Eukyung said.

Eukyung grew very comfortable with math throughout her schooling. When she moved from Florida to metro Atlanta and enrolled in Riverwood International Charter High, she expected to find a math club she could join upon arrival.

To her surprise, Riverwood had no math club.

So Eukyung took it upon herself to start one. It’s still going strong. And the club recently chose new officers, so it can continue after Eukyung graduates and moves on to college.

Eukyung speculates that the International Baccalaureate Program focus at Riverwood explained the lack of a math club.

Yet that same liberal-arts focus also contributed to her increased appreciation for the study of foreign languages in high school. As she mastered English, she also started to study French.

“Although I started learning the language because it’s a requirement, it’s become a passion,” Eukyung said. “French has opened a lot of doors for me. I love that when you can communicate with a native, you immediately establish a sense of friendship and belonging.”

Eukyung has also been active in community service work during her time in high school.

For the past two years, she has been volunteering regularly at the Chastain Horse Park. Volunteers facilitate the therapeutic program, known as Equine Assisted Therapy, in which children with disabilities, the elderly, and people recovering from injuries ride horses with the help of volunteers like Eukyung.

“I had never been in close contact with horses before, so it was a challenging, new experience,” said Eukyung.

She has grown to love working with people there.

“My biggest motivation is the children,” Eukyung said. “It’s just so much fun to be around them and it gives a great feeling that you’ve helped someone that day. It gives another aspect to life.”

Academics are a priority for Eukyung. Riverwood has been academically challenging for her, she said, but she is graduating as one of the Top Ten students in the Class of 2013.

“At first, when they announced the Top Ten and my name was called, I didn’t believe it,” she said. “But as time went on, it began to sink in and I just became happier and happier.”

It made all of the hard work worth it in the end.

“High school is very demanding, and it requires a lot from me,” Eukyung said.

“But since all of my friends go through it together, it’s really helped form close friendships.”

What’s Next: Eukyung still is deciding where she will attend college next year. She hopes to continue to study French and thinks a semester abroad is a must. She also hopes to continue to help at the Horse Park and venture into other community service opportunities while she’s in college.

Elizabeth Wilkes, a student at North Springs Charter High, reported and wrote this article.

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EDUCATION Here is a list of public schools in Sandy Springs and their College and Career Ready Performance Index scores. All information is obtained from the state Department of Education website.

Elementary schools

Heards Ferry CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

95.8 67.6 10 15 1.7 1.5

High Point CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

85 59.7 10.3 11.3 3.2 .5

Ison Springs CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

81.6 54.8 9.6 11.3 4.9 1

Lake Forest CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

80 52.7 8.5 10.5 7.3 1

Spalding Drive Charter CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

80.3 58.4 9.2 10.5 1.7 .5

Woodland CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

84 57 9.6 10.5 5.9 1

Ridgeview Charter CCRPI school: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

78.3 58 8.9 10.5 .4 .5

Sandy Springs Charter CCRPI school: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

76.9 51 9.2 12 2.5 .5

Middle schools

State publishes new school report cards

BY DAN WHISENHUNT

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The Georgia Department of Education has released new report cards on schools that will give parents a different view of student achievement.

Schools will no longer be scored on the system established by the federal No Child Left Behind Act that measured student achievement based on Adequate Yearly Progress. Georgia has obtained a waiver from NCLB. The new system is known as the College and Career Ready Performance Index, or CCRPI. Under AYP, schools either made progress or they didn’t. That was determined by measuring student achievement within different subgroups of students, like English as second language students or special education students.

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AYP also focused on English and math scores.

CCRPI measures all students collectively across all subject areas.

The CCRPI score is calculated by adding the scores below it. Achievement is the base score, worth up to 70 points.

Schools can receive up to 15 points for Progress and 15 points for reducing the Achievement Gap between student scores and the state average. Challenge points are like bonus points for schools with a large number of students who are impoverished. Challenge points are determined by adding the Performance Points with the Exceeding the Bar Point.

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North Springs Charter CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

76.2 51 9.6 13.1 2.5 0

Riverwood International Charter CCRPI score: Achievement Points Progress Points Achievement Gap Points Challenge Points ED/EL/SWD Performance Points Exceeding the Bar Points

75.8 54.5 9.7 10.3 1.3 0

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R O BBERY  900 block of Crestline Parkway 30342 – On April 20, a guest of the Extended Stay Hotel reported that around 9 p.m. he was taking the trash out when he was approached by a young man who demanded his wallet and iPhone. The man gave him his wallet but tossed the phone. The suspect wanted the phone and was looking for it on the ground.

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 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On April 22, the resident said that someone forced entry to the front door of his apartment and took his Xbox 360, Wii game system, two watches and clothing. Also taken were 42” and 32” TVs, one iPod and an iPad tablet.

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 400 block of Summer Drive 30342 – On April 22, someone pried open the front door to the victim’s apartment and took an Xbox, PS3, and Wii game system as well as a Blackberry phone.

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 6000 block of Weatherly Drive 30328 – On April 23, someone forced entry to the victim’s home through a kitchen window. Nothing appears to have been taken.  6000 block of Mount Vernon Oaks Drive 30328 – On April 24, someone entered the resident’s garage and went inside both vehicles. Only loose change was taken.  700 block of Dalrymple Road 30328 – On April 26, the victim’s apartment door was kicked in. Whoever did that came face-toface with the owner’s big dog. The dog apparently scared the suspect away. Nothing was taken.  6600 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 4, a business was burglarized when someone tore a hole in the wall. Multiple packages of hair were taken.  900 block of Pitts Road 30350 – On May 4, the victim said between April 20 and May 4, someone entered his home and took several jewelry items. The victim said a possible suspect is a family acquaintance who is currently on bond for ID theft.

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 600 block of Jefferson Drive 30350 – On April 22, an apartment storage area was broken into.

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 8300 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 6, sometime between 9:30 on the previous day and 10:30 on the report date, someone forced the victim’s door open and took a MacBook Pro, TV, luggage and a DVD player.  7600 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On May 6, sometime between 6 a.m. and 1 p.m., someone forced the victim’s door to her apartment open and took two laptops.  1000 block of Spalding Court 30328 – On May 7, a man said that around 9:30 a.m. he

CAPTAIN STEVE ROSE, SSPD srose@sandyspringsga.gov awoke and heard a noise outside. He looked through the window and saw a man with a crowbar who was attempting to force entry into the apartment. The man fled when he saw the resident.  8600 block of Roberts Drive 30350 – On May 7, a woman reported that following an out-of-town trip, she came home and found that her back sliding door had been broken, and someone had entered and taken a 42inch TV and DVD player.  4700 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 8, a maintenance employee did some replacement work on an apartment refrigerator. When he left, he set the alarm. A halfhour later, the alarm activated. Thinking that he made a mistake, he went to the apartment. When he arrived he saw a man crawling out of the bedroom window. The man saw the maintenance man and fled.  100 block of Spalding Trail 30350 – On May 9, someone forced a back bedroom window and entered the residence. Missing are 37-inch and 50-inch televisions, a DVD player, Bose sound system, and a PlayStation. Also missing is a microwave and Callaway golf clubs.  4800 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 9, someone pried the victim’s front door open sometime between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The victim is missing a 32-inch TV, shoes, a radio and her passport.

THEFT  Benton Woods Drive – Members of a family said that during an estate sale, someone went into a bedroom and took a class ring and wallet.  1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On April 22, a woman reported that

while she was shopping at the HomeGoods store, someone took her wallet from her purse. Her credit cards were later used to buy goods worth $4,000 at a discount store, $1,745 and $1,000 at a department store, and $13 at a clothing store.

 Perimeter Center – A woman reported that while she was at a charity store on April 22, her wallet was taken from her purse in the shopping cart. Her credit cards were taken when she was in the dressing room trying on clothing. A card was later used at a discount store for $4,000 and a drug store for $1,000.  4800 block of Merlandale Drive 30342 – On April 23, a landscaping employee said that someone stole an edger, weedeater, two gas blowers, two pruners and a gas pole trimmer from his trailer while he was working in the customer’s yard.  400 block of Monterrey Parkway 30350 – On April 23, a man reported that a guy named “Spider” was hanging out with him at his apartment. Spider asked the victim to use his SS

Public Safety phone and stepped outside because of what he said was bad reception. The next minute, Spider was gone.

100 block of Stone Mill Trail 30328 – On April 23, a woman reported that someone took her iPhone 4 from the subdivision pool between 12 p.m. and 9 a.m. The tracker showed the phone to be in the 2900 block of Country Squire Drive in DeKalb County.

4900 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On April 26, around 8:30 p.m., a man went into a grocery store and stole $241 worth of Corona beer. The store also reported an attempted shoplifting by two women on the same date, earlier in the day. The two took $457 in items, mostly dental items such as electric toothbrushes and Oral-B refills. They were discovered. They dumped the items and left.

1000 block of Johnson Ferry Road 30342 – On April 27, a man reported that his wife’s rings were stolen from a hospital pre op room while she was in surgery.

1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On April 27, a woman reported that her daughter left her iPhone in the bathroom at a fast-food restaurant. The $600 phone was gone when they returned to get it.a fastfood restaurant Cherry Bluff Drive -- A resident report-

ed that sometime between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. someone removed two pieces of jewelry from her bedroom night stand. She said contractors were in the home at that time and could be suspects.

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dent reported that her diamond engagement ring was stolen. She believes that it was stolen by employees of a plumbing company doing work in that area at that time.

400 block of Morgan Falls 30350 – On May 6, someone entered a construction area and took several tools. The tools included two backpack blowers, concrete saws, generator, pole saw, chain saws and several other items.

The tools were in a container, but the lock was sawed or cut off to gain access.

several jewelry items from the home while she was out of town. Someone also used her credit card numbers to make purchases totaling just over $1,000.

Hewlett Road 30350 -- A resident said

1100 block of Mount Vernon Highway 30328 – On April 21, an iPad was stolen 6300 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On April 21, a handgun was taken

someone removed the mail from his mailbox sometime between 11 p.m. and the following morning about 8 a.m.

8800 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On April 23, a computer, canvas bag and documents

I-285 west of Northside Drive 30342 – On May 8, a man reported that his motorcycle broke down and he left it on the shoulder around 5:30 p.m. He returned just after 7300 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On 9 p.m. and it was May 6, a man said he gone. The bike is a placed his iPhone on 2001 Honda CBR600, the counter to pay Read more of the red and black. for his gas. A man Police Blotter online at and woman were www.reporternewspapers.net

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The victim noticed of Roswell Road that his phone was 30350 – On May 8, gone. He suspects that the man and woman a woman reported that her iPhone was stobehind him took it. He was unable to track it. len about 3 a.m. at her workplace at a sports bar. Video showed that another employee 6600 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road may have taken it. She’s seen picking up an 30328 – On May 6, a woman reported that item which the victim thinks is the phone and she left her cellphone on the classroom tawalking away. ble and someone took it. Another student was overheard saying he was going to take 800 block of Powderhorn Road 30342 – the phone.

On May 8, a bike was reported missing from a carport.

8800 block of Roswell Road -- On May 7, 500 block of Forestdale Drive 30342 – On an HR employee reported that a laptop was May 9, the victim reported that her 2000 Toystolen. The victim said she stepped away for ota 4-Runner was taken overnight. five minutes and someone took the laptop

1000 block of Abernathy Road 30328 – On April 23, a canoe rack

and possibly exited through a nearby side door.

100 block of Marsh Glen Court 30350 – On May 7, the resident said someone took

100 block of North Springs Court 30328 – On April 26, a backpack and camping equipment 4900 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On April 26, a laptop and briefcase 5600 block of Glenridge Drive 30342 – On April 27, a catalytic converter was sawed off the car 1100 block of Hammond Drive 30328 – On April 29, a laptop bag, small radio, paperwork 6000 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On April 29, a purse, iPhone, cellphone, iPad, wallet, extra keys to the car were taken 5600 block of Roswell Road 30342, May 4 5500 block of Glenridge Drive 30342,

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 8700 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On April 23, an employee of Family Dollar said a man came in with a badly counterfeited $50 bill and tried to buy items. He aborted the attempt and left in a car occupied by a woman.  4700

block of Merlendale Drive 30342 – On April 24, some-

one used the victim’s name and Social Security number in an attempt to open credit. Addresses given by the thief were the 2100 block of Peachtree Road in Atlanta and the 3500 block of Robins Landing Way in Decatur.  Old Creek Trail 30328 – On April 25, a woman reported that someone stole a full trash can on April 4. The owners didn’t report the theft. She later found out that her personal information was used to set up a checking account online as well as an ATM card and credit cards. It appears that all of the accounts were later frozen and canceled.

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 2000 block of Dunwoody Club 30350 – On April 27, a man went into the yogurt store, and according to the clerk, confused her with the payment of the $3.63 item by using a $100 bill and asking for certain denominations and breaking those into smaller bills. At the end of the day, the register came up short and the employee believes the suspect was responsible. He had a tattoo on his arm in the shape of a cross.  8000 block of Santa Fe Parkway 30350 – On May 5, a man reported that someone hacked into his account and ran up charges on his credit card. The charges were made in Cartersville, Ga., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., and Franklin and Brentwood, Tenn.  Another bank account was accessed by

someone who called the bank and said he was the victim and wanted to change the address on the credit card to an address in Miami. Someone also tried unsuccessfully to raise the limit on the victim’s credit card from a hardware store.  5300 block of Roswell Road 30342 – On May 8, a man reported that his Bank of America account had unauthorized activity on it.

Someone withdrew just under $3,000 from the account.  1st block of Concourse Parkway 30328 – On May 8, a woman reported that someone conducted nine unauthorized bank transactions in her company’s Bank of America account. She said just over $4,000 was withdrawn and a credit card was made in the

name of “Dennis Williams.”  5500 block of New Northside Drive 30342 – On May 9, around noon, a man went into a bank branch and wanted to cash a personal check for $8,550. He did not have an account at the bank so he was asked for two forms of ID. He gave a California ID that was fake, and a bank debit card, which is not ID. He provided the thumb print. The teller told him he needed to verify some things and called the bank on the check. He asked the suspect his date of birth. The man said “For security reasons, I won’t reveal that” which is translated to “I’m a crook and you should be going along with this.” The teller explained that this is a procedure that needs to be completed if he wanted a check for over $8,000 cashed. The man then walked out.

A witness said a man matching the description got into a car near the adjacent restaurant and headed west on I-285. It appears the account on the check that he tried to cash had been set up out of state, and other monies from victims had been deposited into that account, and subsequent withdrawals had been made. 

 8100 block of Colquitt Road 30350 – On May 9, a woman reported that

someone used her identity to open two Verizon phone and two AT&T phone accounts.

Someone also tried to deposit over $2,000 into her bank account, but the bank reversed the transactions.

A S S A U LT  5000 block of Spalding Drive – Cops spoke to a woman who said she rents a basement apartment from the owner, who came to the apartment to look at a water leak. The renter’s dog was there and the owner told the renter to control the dog or she would shoot it. The renter said the owner pushed her down. She was later checked by EMS personnel although she had no signs of injury. No gun was ever displayed during the argument.  200 block of Northwood Drive 30342 – On April 21, the victim said a group of guys came to his apartment wanting beer. He said he didn’t have any, so one of them said he’d cut him with his pocket knife. The victim then ran and the suspect with the knife chased him in vain. He thinks the suspect’s name is Alfredo.  6300 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On May 4, cops were called to a ho-

tel and spoke to a 63-year-old man who said another man who has been living with him for a month became angry at him, and during the argument the suspect hit him in the eye and then pulled his nipple ring out.

 700 block of Hammond Drive 30328 – On May 5, officers responded to a domestic call and spoke to a man who said he and his girlfriend were arguing, and he told her they couldn’t live together anymore so she slapped him across the face 10 times. She also damaged some of the apartment’s interior.  6000 block of Roswell Road 30328 – On May 6, a woman said that about 3 a.m. she was assaulted, along with her friends, by five men who had just been kicked out of the Taboo 2 Club. She said she was punched and her SS

PUBLIC SAFETY cellphone was thrown to the ground. The five suspects then left in a teal-colored Chrysler 300. Another patron said he was assaulted and his cellphone, debit card and wallet were taken. He described the same group as the woman.

ARRES TS  5300 block of Roswell Road – A woman called the police and told them her son was wanted on a Sandy Springs Police probationviolation warrant. The officers found the man and took him into custody.  Ga. 400 30328 – On April 2,1 an officer found a car on the side of Ga. 400. The driver inside was passed out and unresponsive to the officer. The officer smelled, and then found, marijuana on the man, as well as cash that was in his hand. He was finally awakened and after it was determined that he was OK, he was arrested.  9400 block of Roberts Drive 30350 – On April 22, an apartment complex employee reported that two men were putting menus to a local restaurant on apartment doors. One of the men urinated in the breezeway against the apartment wall.

They got into a white Prius and left.

The responding officer spotted the car and stopped it. The complainant gave a detailed description of the man whom he identified. The suspect had a small bag of marijuana and a glass pipe on him so he was cuffed, put in the police car, and taken to jail.  6300 block of Powers Ferry Road – Cops drove up on a man who was asleep in his car. The man had been asleep in the car because, as he explained to the officers, he was at the Mardi Gras Club and wanted his blood alcohol to go down before he drove. Unfortunately, the man fell asleep with a glass pipe that had burnt marijuana, which was next to the console, where there was a baggie with a small amount of marijuana. He was charged with disorderly conduct but released on a citation.  6400 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On April 26, Home Depot employees caught and detained a woman who took eight, high-dollar light bulbs, placed them in her purse and then attempted to leave. The value of the bulbs was $175.80. She was released on a copy of charges.  8700 block of Roswell Road – A woman was arrested at a grocery store on April 26.

She shoplifted two packs of Ora-Jel pain reliever, valued at $15. She was given a copy of charges and released.  Also at the same store, a man was arrested on April 26 after he stole two packs of ribeye steaks, a pack of chicken wings, tilapia, cookie dough, and a bottle of olive oil. He put the items in a book bag. The total value of the items was $87. He was arrested and taken to jail.  8300 block of Roswell Road – Another shoplifting was called in on April 27. The caller said a Ford pickup had just left after the person in it stole beer from the store. The responding officer passed a truck matching the description. The truck was driving 15 miles over the speed limit. The officer stopped the truck. The truck had two other occupants other than the driver, and beer on the floorboard. The victim identified the passenger in the truck as the man who took the beer.

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rest of the beer was recovered and the suspect, who became loud and verbally abusive due to his intoxication, was taken to jail.  1000 block of Spring Creek Drive 30350 – On May 5, cops answered a domestic violence call that began when the male victim became angry that his girlfriend was speaking to another man. The argument continued to the residence and at one point the woman attacked the man, scratching his face with her fingernails. He had signs of lacerations.

She said he tried to choke her. At the conclusion of the call, the woman was arrested for battery.  I-285 at Roswell Road 30328 – On May 7, an officer made traffic stop on a car that had improper registration. In talking to the occupants, he discovered that one that was on probation for aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and armed robbery in Fulton County. The officer also located a semi-auto pistol in the car, which is a violation of the felony probation. The man was also currently wanted in College Park for an aggravated assault. He was arrested.  6300 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road 30328 – On May 8, the loss-prevention staff called the cops on a woman they detained whom they saw take several items without paying for them. The woman had taken food and clothing totaling just over $81. She was charged and released pending her court date.

5900 block of Roswell Road 30328  – On May 8, an officer observed a man walking down the road with a large number of items under his arm. This particular area has seen thefts from cars recently. The officer turned his car around to return to the man and speak with him. He reported that the man saw him and then quickly walked into a restaurant parking lot, and then quickly across Roswell Road to the area near a restaurant. The man was now running. The officer chased the man over a couple of Dumpsters and then finally corralled him. The man said he was running because he was scared. A number of items were recovered including gold charms and watches, as well as unopened retail items like an iPod charger, cellphones, headphones, deodorant and other items. The man also was wanted in Cobb County for probation violations for drugs and possessing tools for the commission of a crime. (Screwdrivers, hammers, crowbars, nail pullers and other like items are considered “tools to commit crimes,” such burglary or forced entry.)

He also had several pills on him identified as available only by prescription. He was arrested for many things including shoplifting, obstruction, loitering and prowling, possession of prescription drugs not in an original container, and an outstanding warrant.

OTH ER TH I N GS  6500 block of Vernon Woods Drive – A woman called the police from and said she was locked inside the gated parking lot of the Benson Center. The chain was later cut

by Fire Department personnel and she was free at last.  8400 block of Roswell Road 30350 – On April 27, two employees at a fast-food restaurant reported that around 11:30 a.m., a drive-through customer got mad over the price of the food and threw a water bottle at the employee. The bottle hit her in the shoulder. The woman then drove off in her grey Mercedes.

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Watching the wheels go ‘round The sixth annual Global Imports Sandy Springs Cycling Challenge hit the streets on May 5, with professional cyclists spinning their way around Sandy Springs Circle. Above, left, Lilah Perry, 3, gets a bird’s-eye view of the women’s action atop her father Craig’s shoulders. Right, above, Abigail Aldridge, at left, the winner of the Women’s Cat 3 and 4 race, waves from the stage, while Salma Hugue, who came in third, also celebrates. Right, Victoria Haney, riding for the Frazier Cycling team, at the starting line. Left, the Women’s Category 3 and 4 race produces a tight pack.

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