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Rejected ‘Comfort Women’ monument accepted by city BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
PHIL MOSIER
At left, Tony O’Connor wins the 10th annual Brookhaven Bolt on Saturday, May 20, with a time of 17:26. A family event that winds through the Ashford Park neighborhood, the 5K is a qualifier for the Peachtree Road Race. All proceeds benefit Ashford Park Elementary School.
EDUCATION Top of the Class
OUT & ABOUT Lantern Parade will light up the Hooch Page 16
The city of Brookhaven will become the first city in the Deep South to memorialize the “comfort women” — women and girls who were enslaved and sexually trafficked by the Japanese Army during World War II — by accepting a monument recently rejected by Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights. City Council at its May 23 meeting approved a resolution to accept from the Atlanta Comfort Women Memorial Task Force the donation of a “comfort women” statue of a young girl seated in a chair next to an empty chair. The statue, not presented at the meeting, will be installed in a city park. City officials have not decided which park will host the statue. The Brookhaven council’s decision to accept the donation comes after the Center for Civil and Human Rights earlier this year agreed to install the statue on its grounds, See REJECTED on page 23
Planned demolition sparks tearful appeal BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewsapers.net
From documentaries on diversity and inclusion to community partnerships on autism awareness, GPB is an educational lifeline to millions of Georgia students, teachers and residents. JAN PAUL
Chairperson, Georgia Public Broadcasting
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A resident’s tearful testimony about her apartment building’s pending demolition drew a hug from a city board member and showed the human impact of the Buford Highway corridor’s rapid redevelopment. At the May 17 Zoning Board of Appeals meeting, members unanimously voted to approve a buffer variance for Ardent Companies that will allow it to tear down Park Villa Apartment Homes near Buford HighSee PLANNED on page 12