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Roswell Road getting better, officials say

BY DAN WHISENHUNT

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One of Atlanta’s most notorious north-to-south corridors gets a bad rap, traffic officials say.

The people who drive the road every day see it a little differently. Turning left onto Roswell Road requires patience. Sidewalks fade in and out of view.

Finding a driveway into a business can be tricky. Pedestrians often cross the road wherever they please.

When school buses drop students off at apartments along Roswell, the road becomes a parking lot.

Traffic officials with the city of Sandy Springs and the Georgia Department of Transportation say traffic flow along Roswell Road in Fulton County has improved in the last few years. State Route 9, as the road is known to state offiicials, begins in Midtown and ends in Dahlonega.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has spent $191 million over the last 10 years making im-

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Back to front, Samara Harber, 7, Eileen MacDonnell, 6, and Ava Kreiss, 7, give it their all throughout a tug of war contest during “National Kids to Parks Day” at Hammond Park in Sandy Springs on May 18. The event encouraged families to engage in healthy, outdoor activities. More photos on page 30.

After a two-hour hearing May 29 about the use of a family cemetery in Sandy Springs, a Fulton County judge is deciding whether a lawsuit over who owns the land should go to trial.

Fulton County Superior Judge Kimberly Adams heard arguments from lawyers for property owner Christopher Mills and descendents of Judge John Heard, the Confederate veteran buried at the cemetery. Many of the descendants attended the hearing.

Mills and his attorney, Christopher Porterfield, asked the judge to rule against a summary judgment request, and to allow the case to proceed to trial or to rule that part of the property can be used for a cemetery and part can be used for private property.

They also argued that part of the land would still be subject to taxation because portions of it aren’t being used as a cemetery.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF CITY OF SANDY SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY REFUNDING REVENUE BOND (THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY, INC. PROJECT), SERIES 2013 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 17th day of June, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., in the office of Wendell K. Willard, Attorney for the City of Sandy Springs Development Authority, at 7840 Roswell Road, Building 300, Suite 330, Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350, the City of Sandy Springs Development Authority, through its appointed hearing officer, will conduct a public hearing on the proposed issuance of a revenue bond to be designated “City of Sandy Springs Development Authority Refunding Revenue Bond (The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy, Inc. Project), Series 2013,” and on the location and nature of the proposed facilities to be refinanced.

The bond is to be issued in a maximum aggregate face amount of $10,590,000 to refinance the costs of acquiring, constructing, renovating, and installing various educational facilities including, without limitation, (1) an approximately 72,000 square foot elementary school building, and related facilities located on an approximately 11.3-acre tract of land at 8105 Roberts Drive in Sandy Springs, Georgia and (2) an approximately 60,000 square foot middle school building and related facilities located on an approximately 7.8-acre tract of land at 7901 Roberts Drive in Sandy Springs, Georgia. The facilities that are being refinanced will be owned and operated by The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy, Inc. (the “Borrower”), a Georgia nonprofit corporation. The City of Sandy Springs Development Authority will issue the bond on behalf of the City of Sandy Springs, and the facilities that are being refinanced are located in the corporate limits of the City of Sandy Springs. The Public Hearing is being held for the purpose of providing a reasonable opportunity for interested individuals to express their views, both orally and in writing, on the proposed issuance of the bond and the location and nature of the proposed facilities to be refinanced.

THE BOND SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE AN INDEBTEDNESS OR GENERAL OBLIGATION OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA OR THE CITY OF SANDY SPRINGS BUT SHALL CONSTITUTE LIMITED OBLIGATIONS OF THE CITY OF SANDY SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, PAYABLE SOLELY FROM FUNDS PAID BY THE BORROWER AND SECURED BY COLLATERAL FURNISHED OR CAUSED TO BE FURNISHED BY THE BORROWER.

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“Intown adds a vibrant fifth community to our coverage area,” Levene said. “It has a loyal base of readers and advertisers, and we are excited about the opportunity to include this important market in our family of local publications.”

Intown’s previous owner and publisher, Wendy Binns, explained the change in a letter to readers in the June issue. “The product will have more potential to develop and grow,” Binns said, “and the new owner has increased efficiency with a bigger, more diverse team of talent.”

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City finds more money for projects

BY DAN WHISENHUNT

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The city will have an additional $500,000 for projects this year.

City Council learned during a May 21 budget hearing that staff revised its prediction of how much tax money the city will collect.

According to the newest estimate, the city will take in $2.4 million less in revenue, not the $2.9 million in less revenue city staff originally predicted.

City staff budgeted the extra $500,000 into citywide “priority” capital projects. Capital projects are brickand-mortar spending on things such as roads and bridges. The city budget proposal recommends spending the $500,000 on improvements for Abernathy-Johnson Ferry Road and building a pedestrian bridge on Dunwoody Club Drive.

Each year during budget time, city staff members give council members a list of priority projects and ask them to rank each one. Staff members review the rankings and then budgets accordingly.

The ranking process is intended to purge

politics from the decision.

In recent budget meetings, City Council members have questioned that system because the city will have so little to spend on priority projects this year.

The $5 million to-do list is the lowest amount for priority projects in six years, largely due to the city’s spending on its city center project.

This year the city is budgeting $13.5 million for its city center project, a decade-long effort expected to cost upward of $100 million.

The proposed city general fund budget is $87.8 million, a figure that includes $22 million transferred to the city’s total capital projects budget. Sandy Springs’ capital projects fund budget will be $90.5 million.

Sandy Springs is projecting a $7.3 million surplus this year, according to its budget proposal.

Sandy Springs’ new fiscal year, Fiscal 2014, begins on July 1. City Council will consider approving the budget in June.

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Parent’s Heards Ferry email goes viral

BY DAN WHISENHUNT

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Heards Ferry Elementary parent Lisa Bianchi said she understands the consequences of not moving her child’s school in order to rebuild it.

She sent an email around to other parents explaining what will happen if Heards Ferry Elementary remains on site. It will mean parking decks, lack of athletic fields and no room to grow, she told them.

City Councilman Chip Collins sent the email to his constituents and ReporterNewspapers.net, where it was republished. In his email, Collins wrote, “I thought you might find interesting the very analytical take of one of our neighbors on the school board staff’s comments.”

People did find it interesting. The letter quickly became one of the top stories on the website, generating 52 likes on Facebook.

Moving Heards Ferry Elementary has been a controversial issue for the community. The Fulton County Board of Education recently ruled out a potential location on Riverside Drive.

Here is Bianchi’s full letter:

limits construction options.

As a point of note, I live in the Riverside neighborhood and I have children at Heards Ferry and Ridgeview.

I want Heards Ferry to stay where it is, and I want Riverwood to have adequate facilities, and I want my children to have a good elementary and high school experience. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Keeping Heards Ferry where it is causes the current elementary kids to suffer for a couple of years, and future high school kids to suffer for many years. I watched the school board meeting where this was discussed and learned a lot. I will share what I took away from their discussion.

The combined HFE and RICS properties equal about the amount of acreage the state says a high school should have. Both schools are overcrowded now and the enrollment is projected to increase, so they both need to expand. If the land were flat and better shaped it might be easier to cram everything in the space, but the property is oddly shaped and there is something like an 82-foot elevation change from Heards Ferry Road to the south end of the property by 285. This

CONSEQUENCES to future Riverwood students: – doing without onsite baseball fields, softball fields, and tennis courts for years – something like 8,000 feet of massive retaining walls (we are talking some as high as 40 feet) – parking decks – city school look with multiple story buildings – reduced field space after completion – no future development flexibility – today’s elementary and middle school children possibly coexisting with construction through their entire high school experience

CONSEQUENCES to Heards Ferry children of keeping both schools on the same property: – one or more years of no gym or field – virtually no HFE parking for a year or more – at least a three-story elementary school – massive retaining walls – longer construction periods – no future development flexibility Also, the board members seemed in agreement that the addition of classroom space at Riverwood would not take care of the building problems (picture a 42-year-old building with three patchwork renovations) and a replacement high school will be needed when the money can be allocated. So today’s elementary and middle school children will likely experience major construction for most if not all of their high school experience if the schools stay on the same piece of land.

Is the board under pressure to consider keeping HFE on the same property because they are only hearing from the people who are against moving it? Maybe they should hear from the many families who have considered all the facts and understand the consequences of not moving it.

The Sandy Springs City Council usually meets the first and the third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at City Hall, which is located at 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500

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Roswell Road getting better, officials say CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

provements on the Fulton County portion of the road, most of it coming from $154 million in federal money, according to the agency.

“GDOT has done a lot on State Route 9 (Roswell Road),” GDOT spokesman Mark McKinnon said. “In the last couple of years, we have retimed the traffic signals, installed many vehicle-pedestrian detectors, and upgraded all the signal heads.”

Roswell Road has existed in one form or another since the early 1800s. Its importance grew in the 20th century, as automobiles became more common. Before it was notorious for suburban gridlock, Roswell was a notorious bootlegging route, according to Clarke Otten of the Sandy Springs Historic Preservation.

In the 1950s, Roswell Road expanded with the growth of Atlanta’s bedroom communities.

“The real problem lies in the explosive growth that this area has experienced during the last two decades,” McKinnon said. “There are simply too many cars for the roadway, and, if you look at Roswell Road, it is virtually impossible to widen.”

Residents in Buckhead and Sandy Springs want more improvements. North Buckhead Civic Association President Gordon Certain said the best the community can hope for is better signals and limiting growth along the corridor.

“The traffic control technology we have is basically 1940s,” Certain said. “It’s just dumb traffic signals with a little bit of smart timing, so traffic signals are completely unaware of the traffic loads.”

The cities of Sandy Springs and Atlanta have limited options when it comes to dealing with the state-owned road.

Sandy Springs Director of Traffic and Transportation Brad Edwards said the city does all it can.

“What do they think the fix is? With the section that we have, do they think the fix is going to six lanes going all the way down and taking businesses out? I wish it were that easy,” Edwards said.

GDOT says the improvements on Roswell have decreased delays by 25 percent during morning and evening commutes.

McKinnon said more fixes are on the way that will improve signal timing in Atlanta and Sandy Springs.

Sandy Springs monitors congestion in its multimillion dollar traffic manage-

ment center. Traffic Engineer Bill Andrews said people can get up and down Roswell “in any reasonable amount of time” when routes like nearby Ga. 400 can grind to a halt.

“The way people use it, Roswell Road is not a bad corridor,” Andrews said. “It moves better than you’d probably expect.”

Sandy Springs’ city officials are trying to develop their community’s city center, a project that will cost more than $100 million over 10 years. A group of business owners called the Main Street Alliance identified Roswell Road as one of the biggest hindrances to downtown development in a 2011 report to the city. Sandy Springs adopted its downtown redevelopment plan in December. The plan tackles the Roswell Road problem by building sidewalks, updating zoning and improving east-to-west connections using the roads controlled by the city.

Cheri Morris, president of Morris & Fellows redevelopment firm, said Roswell Road’s lack of sidewalks, irregular access points and gridlock give business owners little incentive to invest in the appearance of their buildings.

“The biggest No. 1 and almost only problem in Sandy Springs is the physical and aesthetic dysfunction of Roswell Road, and thus the No. 1 recommendation of the Main Street Alliance to the city was to correct Roswell Road aesthetically and functionally, at which point the shopping centers can redevelop and re-merchandise to a much more desirable mix of shops and restaurants,” Morris said.

But what options are there?

Traffic management may be the only real option without expanding the road.

No one thinks expansion is a possibility at this point.

District 8 Atlanta City Councilwoman Yolanda Adrean said the city of Atlanta in general needs better traffic signal coordination.

“What I’d like to see is synchronized lighting on all of our major routes, so traffic can be controlled during peak hours,” Adrean said.

Certain said signal timing and limiting growth are the best options.

“Unless people want to buy out a whole bunch of businesses along Roswell Road, what we’ve got is what we’re going to have,” Certain said.

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Community

Roswell Road has changed through the decades Henry County is formed during the 1821 land lottery distributing former Native American lands, and includes the largest portion of Sandy Springs.

An increase of farms and settlers in the area once occupied by Creek and Cherokee Indians (the “dogleg,” whose southern boundary was the Hightower Indian Trail was Cherokee; the rest was Creek) led to the creation of old wagon paths, often following earlier Indian trails. They would eventually trace routes still in existence today as roads.

In its first incarnation, parts of Roswell Road were west of where it currently exists, and it ran through what is now Arlington Cemetery. In the northern reaches, it was east of the current route.

Over the years the route would change to avoid the deep valleys of Marsh and Long Island creeks by passing eastward of the headwaters of these two large watersheds before becoming the direct north-south connection it is today.

1821 1820

With the opening of Ga. 400, Roswell Road fell under state control. Roswell previously had been U.S. 19, and today it is State Route 9. The route begins in downtown Atlanta and ends in Dahlonega.

Modern Roswell Road begins to take shape, as US 19 is built by the Feds.

Roswell Mill is constructed in the latter half of the 1840s, as north-to-south interconnectivity became important in order to move textiles and materials to and from the mill.

The road, known as “Thunder Highway,” becomes a popular route for bootleggers running moonshine from Dawsonville to Atlanta.

This fleeing of cops during the Prohibition era ultimately leads to the formation of NASCAR.

The first incarnations of what would become Roswell Road began to develop.

As Roswell Road shifted, the geographic center of the city shifted with it, concentrating around the triangles formed by the intersections of Roswelll Road, Johnson Ferry Road and Mount Vernon Highway.

1980s

1950s 1920s 1900s

1865 through 1877

1845 through 1850

The Bell Bomber Plant, later acquired by Lockheed, in Marietta, drives the expansion of Atlanta’s bedroom communities. Roswell Road begins expanding from two to four lanes.

Modern automobiles come into vogue and the demand for roads increases.

After the conclusion of the Civil War, reconstruction begins and ends, and the focus of the road continues to change.

Roswell’s path shifts eastward to Glenridge Drive.

The oldest part of Sandy Springs is formed in 1820 when Gwinnett County is established during the 1820 land lottery distributing former Native American lands.

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To the editor: I want to share with Sandy Springs taxpayers what I have learned. I’m the civic association president for Atlanta’s fourth largest neighborhood, North Buckhead. My neighborhood adjoins Sandy Springs from Roswell Road to Peachtree Dunwoody Road.

The proposed Sandy Springs Gateway project (west side of Roswell Road at Windsor Parkway in Sandy Springs) is almost next door to us, and we will be impacted by its coming surge of traffic. So we have been following the project’s rezoning application closely.

While nearby neighborFILE hoods rightly protest the A map showing the initial concept Gateway’s precedent-setting density and building heights, for a mixed-use development near the Sandy Springs government Chastain Park. For a larger version, seems dead set on approving go to ReporterNewspapers.net.

Gateway, seeing it as a badlymoney, but that kind of money has been needed improvement. scarce lately.)

However, Sandy Springs taxpayers So, the only ones left to pay are those might feel differently if they knew all the paying property taxes and fees to Sandy details, which I’m afraid they won’t unSprings. If I were one of them I would til it’s too late. The Sandy Springs City want to know the cost before approving Council can vote on the Gateway rezonthe Gateway project. ing as early as June 18. CoincidentalNobody is saying how much the inly, the first public disclosure of informatersection relocation will cost. The City tion about the relocation of the Windsor Council apparently knows something Parkway intersection won’t happen unbut they can’t talk.

Sandy Springs Pubtil June 18. lic Works has identified $4.4 million in What’s the Windsor Parkway relopotential funding sources, but the total cation project? It is the plan to realign will likely be more. For talking purposWindsor so it meets Roswell Road at a es I’ll assume $5 million, including land right angle, rather than at a slant. More acquisition. Others I have talked with importantly, the change increases the think it might be double or triple that separation of Windsor from West Wieuamount. ca Road by several hundred feet, allowThe Gateway project will bring in ing more stacking space for rush hour welcome new property tax money to cars and smoother traffic flow.

Sandy Springs and Fulton County But Roswell Road’s bottlenecks at (mostly to the latter). Sandy Springs nearby Wieuca and West Wieuca Road may gain as much as $250,000 a year. intersections are in Atlanta, which has While sales taxes will be collected at no money to make any improvements.

Gateway’s stores, they will be largely Worse, the Gateway project is slated to cannibalized from nearby stores, resultincrease Roswell Road traffic in that area ing in little net change. by a staggering 24 percent. Will there So, as good as the Gateway and fixing be a net improvement? Not likely. the Windsor intersection might initialIf the Gateway is one project and rely seem, Sandy Springs taxpayers should locating Windsor Parkway is another, realize that it might take 20 years of new why mention them together? The conproperty tax revenues just to break even. nection is that a powerful metro agency It could take 60 years if Windsor’s relocalled GRTA has required that Windsor cation costs $15 million. During that Parkway be relocated should the Gatetime, taxpayers (not the politicians and way project be approved. not the developer) make up the slack.

In other words, approve the GateTaxpayers need a firm understanding of way and you, Sandy Springs taxpayers, what they are being signed up for bewill pay to move Windsor – regardless of fore there are, to use a traffic metaphor, cost. GRTA isn’t putting up any monno more off ramps. The Windsor Parkey. Neither is the Georgia Department way price should be disclosed before the of Transportation who “owns” Roswell Gateway vote is cast.

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Editor’s note: As high schools and colleges invite successful alumni to return to campus to share their thoughts about life, we thought we’d provide a “commencement address” of our own.

Sandy Springs businesswoman Kat Cole, president of Cinnabon Inc., has traveled the world and seen success close up. We asked her to share her thoughts on living a fulfilling life. Here’s what she had to say.

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Perimeter Business A monthly section focusing on business in the Reporter Newspapers communities

Commuters adapt to Perimeter grind

Dan Whisenhunt While there are four MARTA stations, van and car pools, shuttle buses and other pedestrian options for people getting to the Perimeter area from elsewhere, metro Atlanta commuters still prefer getting around via automobile than by mass transit.

By Dan Whisenhunt Steve McKinley enjoys riding the Xpress bus to the Perimeter from his home in Cumming, but he said he sees room for improvement.

McKinley, who works at Macy’s, said the Xpress bus arrives at the North Springs MARTA station right as the train headed to the Perimeter takes off.

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All he can do is wave as the train heads south. The Georgia Regional Transportation Authority runs the Xpress, while MARTA has its own board of directors.

“That’s my only complaint, having to wait 15 minutes for the next train,” McKinley said.

The commute of workers like McKinley is something that Perimeter employers consider when deciding to set up

–Page 10 I-285/Ga. 400

Todd Emerson, with Harry Norman Realtors, discusses the current Perimeter singlefamily housing market, and gives his outlook for the future.

shop along the top end of I-285. Transportation advocates say the range of options for getting to and from offices at the Perimeter make the choice easier for companies.

Whether it’s easier for employees depends on where they begin their morning commute.

Groups like the Perimeter Community Improvement Districts and the Pe-

rimeter Transportation and Stability Coalition work to turn transportation options into assets for economic development.

“Of course the major assets we have here are the four MARTA stations, and most of the employers here are very excited they have access to MARTA here,” Perimeter CIDs President and CEO Continued on page 14

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Profile: Keeping it in the family –Page 15

Funding I-285/Ga. 400 improvements has proven to be a challenge. Now, the PCIDs are stepping up with funds.

Three brothers continue on with the family’s auto repair business, putting their customers’ and employees’ needs first.

PeriMeter Business

Q & A on Perimeter single-family homes: Definitely recovered Q Todd Emerson has been working with residential real estate in the metro Atlanta area since 1998. In 2005, he joined Harry Norman Realtors’ office in Buckhead and then, in 2008, was named Senior Vice President and Managing Broker of the Harry Norman office for the Perimeter Center area. In 2009, he also became managing broker of the company’s Blue Ridge office. This year, he was named president-elect of the Atlanta Board of Realtors.

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How do single-family home sales in the Perimeter area compare with sales in other markets in metro Atlanta? What drives home sales in the Perimeter?

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The Perimeter area continues to outperform what I define as the “six core counties” (Cobb, Cherokee, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and Gwinnett) that make up a significant part of metro Atlanta.

Year over year, home sales in the Perimeter area are up 19 percent compared to sales for the same time period in 2012. Conversely, home sales in the six core county area ac-

tually are down 9.3 percent compared to the same time period in 2012. However, a significant reason for the year-over-year decline for the six core county area can be directly attributed to a significant reduction in the overall number of distressed properties (REO/bankowned properties and short sales) that are currently available versus what was available for sale in 2012.

Regarding what drives home sales in the Perimeter area, there are a number of factors: access to good schools (both public and private); the Perimeter Mall area and surrounding shopping venues in general that offer a multitude of choices; the high concentration of office and commercial space that attracts hundreds of companies to the area and thousands of jobs; and convenient access to a number of major surface streets and highways allowing quick access to other areas of Atlanta.

In addition, the Perimeter area has historically been a highly desirable destination for not only those living locally in nearby areas, but also for those relocating to Atlanta.

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How did singlefamily home sales in the Perimeter area fare during the recent recession?

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As in all markets across the greater Atlanta area, the Perimeter area experiTodd Emerson has been involved in enced a decline in the Atlanta real estate since 1998. He was total number of sales with Harry Norman in Buckhead before during the recent rebeing named senior vice president and cession, however these managing broker of the company’s Perimeter declines were not as Center office in 2008. He is also managing significant or severe as broker of the Harry Norman Blue Ridge what a majority of the office. He was named president-elect of greater metro area exthe Atlanta Board of Realtors this year. perienced.

The primary reason the Perimeter area was Has the market for sales of not as severely impacted as Atlansingle-family homes recovta as a whole can be directly tied to ered in the Perimeter area? How a very low percentage of distressed close do you think it is to a full, property sales. Throughout the repre-recession recovery? What do cession years, distressed sales only you expect to see in the near term represented 5 to 7 percent of the toin single-family home sales in the tal sales in the Perimeter area, comPerimeter market? In the long pared to more than 30 percent for term?

Atlanta in general.

Usually, distressed properties are Sales of single-family homes sold at a significant discount (typidefinitely have recovered in cally 20-30 percent less) compared the Perimeter area. We aren’t quite to non-distressed properties. As the back to pre-recession (summer 2007) market was absorbing these dislevels; however, we are making very tressed properties, it had a negative positive strides in that direction. impact on prices and future appraisThe simple economic fundamenals. However, now that we have liqtals of supply and demand indicate uidated a significant amount of this we will continue to see positive imtype of property and demand has provement for home sales in the Peremained high, we are beginning rimeter market area. Demand reto see prices appreciate across most mains high and additional “buyer market areas.

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PeriMeter Business variables,” such as job growth and low interest rates, also remain positive. In addition, inventory continues to remain relatively low, so properties that are properly priced, that are in excellent condition, and aggressively exposed to the market typically sell quickly.

I anticipate this trend will continue for the next two to three years, at which point we will be back to pre-recession levels.

“Regarding what drives home sales in the Perimeter area, there are a number of factors: access to good schools (both public and private); the Perimeter Mall area and surrounding shopping venues in general that offer a multitude of choices; the high concentration of office and commercial space that attracts hundreds of companies to the area and thousands of jobs; and convenient access to a number of major surface streets and highways allowing quick access to other areas of Atlanta.”

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Multi-family development appears to have returned to the Perimeter market in a big way. What’s happening with single-family development?

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The challenge the Perimeter area has in regards to single-family development is there just isn’t a whole lot of available empty land in the area anymore.

Therefore, in order to create additional households, you are seeing more development “vertically” versus “horizontally.” However, we are beginning to hear saws and hammers in and around the Perimeter area as developers are finding little pockets to build small, single-family developments.

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What types of homes do you believe will be in the greatest demand in the Perimeter area in the future?

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I would anticipate seeing more condo/townhome development close to the shopping and business districts move forward as the whole notion of “live, work, play” continues to be a pop-

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ular theme.

However, the area in general has always been known as a bedroom community, and because of all of the positive factors I mentioned earlier, it will always be a draw for a variety of different buyers who desire a single-family residence. For that reason, I would expect future purchases to include folks who intend on either renovating or adding to existing homes, tear-downs and rebuilds, or buyers appreciating the variety of architecture available in the Perimeter area and the charm associated with those property types.

Regardless of the property type, I fully expect the Perimeter area to continue thriving as a “home destination” for a multitude of buyers for a very long time.

Georgia bank official: State’s banks appear ‘stabilized’ after recession

By Joe Earle Georgia banks appear to have “stabilized” after the recent economic downtown, a representative of the Georgia Bankers Association told Perimeter business leaders.

“In 2012, more of our state banks were profitable,” Bankers Association Vice President David Oliver told the PBA members. “It’s very encouraging.”

Oliver said that 74 percent of the state-based banks in Georgia reported profits in 2012, compared with 60 percent the previous year.

Georgia banks were hit hard during the recession and scores of banks closed. But Oliver said that only two banks had closed so far this year, compared with 10 last year. He said the percentage of loans to banks that were reported as past due has declined for 11 consecutive quarters.

Oliver spoke May 10 as a member of a panel addressing the Perimeter

Business Association during a meeting at The Retreat at Perimeter Summit.

Panel members discussed banking, finance and investment in the Perimeter area, which includes portions of Sandy Springs, Dunwoody and Brookhaven. Other panelists were Christina Parks, vice president of private banking for Morgan Stanley Private Bank, and John A. Heagy, senior managing director for Hines, a development, investment and property management firm.

“The Central Perimeter submarket has come into its own in the last 12 to 18 months,” Heagy said.

He said 125,000 people now work in the Perimeter area. “That’s just a staggering number,” he said. He said companies such as AirWatch, a technology firm, and State Farm are expanding operations in the area.

“Ten or 12 years ago, this was not the profile of this submarket,” he said. “It had a much lower profile.”

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Business chat Claressa Hicklen, left, a financial advisor with Nestwise, chats with Rebecca Deutsch of the Buckhead Women’s Business Group during the Greater Perimeter Business Expo on May 2. Representatives of more than 70 businesses operated booths at the expo, which was sponsored by the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and the Dunwoody Chamber of Commerce and held at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta at Ravinia in Dunwoody.

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PCIDs promise millions to jump start I-285/Ga. 400 interchange

By Joe Earle and Melissa Weinman Perimeter business owners have agreed to pony up $10.5 million to try to jump start plans to fix the I-285/ Ga. 400 interchange.

“We’re saying I-285 and Ga. 400 is so critical to us that we want to put $10 million on the table,” said Donna Mahaffey, chief of staff for the Perimeter Community Improvement Districts, which will provide the money.

Gov. Nathan Deal made the formal announcement May 22 that the PCIDs had agreed to raise more than $10 million for work on the project, which Deal said was “crucial to one of the metro region’s greatest economic engines.”

But $10.5 million is only a tiny portion of the money required to rebuild the intersection, which state officials say is among the busiest and most clogged interchanges in the state. Mahaffey called the PCIDs appropriation “a statement of collaborative interest and a statement of focus” on the project.

A proposed regional transportation sales tax was slated to raise $450 million for the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange as part of the $8 billion plus that would have been collected for projects in a 10-country area. But that tax was soundly defeated by metro Atlanta voters.

Since the regional sales tax defeat, political and business leaders have been looking for other ways to finance high-priced road projects. Deal praised the partnership between the state and the PCID as a sign of the future.

“Due to limited resources, this model of partnership gives us the tools we need to facilitate major transportation projects,” he said.

The PCIDs are districts of business owners clustered around the Perimeter. The districts lie in portions of Fulton and DeKalb counties. Within the districts, businesses can tax themselves for transportation improvements. In the past, the PCIDs have helped finance the half-diamond interchange at Hammond Drive and Ga. 400, and the “diverging diamond” interchange at Ashford-Dunwoody and I-285.

PCIDs’ president and CEO now calls improvements to I-285 and Ga. 400 “the No. 1 priority for the Perimeter CIDs.” The PCIDs’ board agreed to issue bonds to raise $10 million to be used on the project, and appropriate an additional $500,000 this year for the project, Mahaffey said. In future years, the board may consider additional appropriations if they are

Improvements to the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange have been called “the No. 1 priority for Perimeter CIDs.” A sales tax, which would have raised $450 million for the interchange, was soundly defeated by metro Atlanta voters in 2012. Now Perimeter business owners have agreed to bring $10.5 million to the table to jump start the improvement plans.

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needed, she said.

“It’s really very general at this point,” Mahaffey said, “except to say, we are at the table with these funds.”

Money will be provided to the Georgia Department of Transportation, which is developing plans for

rebuilding the intersection and will be able to use the PCIDs’ cash to fill a variety of needs to keep the project moving, officials said.

“I’m sure GDOT is going through a number of different scenarios as to how they will handle this project,”

Mahaffey said.

The board of the Atlanta Regional Commission also has voted to include $2 million this year in the Metro Atlanta Transportation Improvement Plan to continue engineering project development for the interchange.

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There are also van and car pools, “of shuttles and pedestrian options for course, people getting to the Perimeter from the major elsewhere. assets But there are also studies that show we have Atlanta traffic congestion hasn’t dehere are Dealer Name terred drivers.

Address the four MARTA Two recent studies produced by City, ZIP stations, and most the Texas A&M Transportation InstiWebsite of the employers tute and American Public Transportation Association show a preference here are very excited for cars over trains. they have access Texas A&M concluded that in 2011 to MARTA here.”

Atlanta traffic congestion ranked seventh worst in the nation, costing driv– Yvonne Williams ers an additional 51 hours in traffic Perimeter Cids President and Ceo each year – a full work week, plus overtime. That’s up one hour from 2010. north because of MARTA. The PTSC APTA data shows ridership on is a sister group of Perimeter CIDs, MARTA declined in 2010, 2011 and working with companies to help em2012. MARTA rail reported approxployees find alternatives to driving. imately 77,000 unlinked passenger PTSC sells discounted MARTA passtrips in 2010, according to APTA. In es and organizes car pools.

2012, MARTA reported approximate“Technology companies like our ly 70,500 trips. area, because it gives them access to Public transit can be a good option people who want to live in Buckhead for some employees. or Midtown,” Saffle said. “That’s Tamika Eldridge, who works at when it gets back to real estate costs Autotrader.com, lives by the Hartsand parking. We do have an abunfield-Jackson International Airport dance of parking here. You almost and said her trip to the Perimeter is a have to pay everywhere you go in straight shot north. Her ride to work Midtown and Buckhead.” typically takes 45 minutes to an hour.

David Dabbiere, chief operating “I don’t have to change trains,” officer for AirWatch, said Eldridge said. “I get on his company was quickthe North Springs line and Co v er ly outgrowing its space at we’re good to go through the Lumberyard in MidMedical Center [station].”

St o r y town. The parking lot was People who connect to repainted to put the spaces MARTA using a bus procloser together. vided by another agency said there’s Moving to the Perimeter gave the room for improvement. company and its employees more elKaren Brown, who works at Equibow room, Dabbiere said. On any fax and lives in Gwinnett County, uses given day the company hosts visitors the Xpress bus service. She drives 30 from Fortune 500 companies. Having minutes to catch her bus at Sugarloaf easy access to the airport is essential, Mills Mall in Lawrenceville. he said.

She takes the bus into the city, “We do have a lot of consultants where it stops at the Civic Center that travel,” Dabbiere said. “They use MARTA and Arts Center MARTA staMARTA to get to the airport. So we’re tions. In order to get to work, Brown actually seeing for us increased usgets on a northbound MARTA train, age.” a bit of backtracking that adds time Dabbiere said he’d like to see a to her commute. Brown said it would shuttle to reduce traffic at lunch time, be helpful if she could get on the bus and said he supports a shuttle project closer to where she lives. under development by the Perimeter The length of commute and the efBusiness Alliance. ficiency of mass transit are both conHe said he hopes the influx of comsiderations for employers looking for panies to the Perimeter makes the a place to do business. area more of a place and less of a desSean Saffle, executive director of tination. the Perimeter Transportation and “I think you’d like to see a lot more Sustainability Coalition, said the empeople living here,” Dabbiere said. ployment base of Atlanta is moving

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From left, three brothers, Eric, Rod and Brian McCullough, run the car shop McCullough AutoCare, continuing their father’s legacy.

Family-owned auto business takes a personal interest

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they are greeted by name. The brothers chat back and forth, checking on Continuing their father’s legacustomers and taking time to talk cy, the three McCullough brothers with each person, asking about their -- Eric, Rod and Brian -- now run families and their lives.

McCullough AutoCare in Sandy “We take a personal interest,” Eric Springs. said. “We’re not a sales organization Their business focuses broadly on disguised as a repair shop. We know car repair, offering services what’s going on in their ranging from a standard oil lives just like they know change to emissions testing Perimet er what’s going on in ours.” to more complicated auto The brothers show good Pro fil e repairs. humor between each other “We’ve been blessed with lighthearted jokes and with expert technicians, and we teasing. work on pretty much everything,” “Rod is the bad cop,” Eric said.

Eric said. “From headlight to tail“When we all play good cop, bad light, we do it all.” cop, Rod is the bad cop.”

The family business began in 1969 “That’s right,” Rod said. “My fawith “$1,200 and a lot of ambition,” vorite part of my job is abusing the Eric said. At one time, the family employees.” owned five shops in the Atlanta area.

“Even his dogs are scared of him,” “[My father] and I partnered Eric added. when I was 18,” Eric said. “We all Working on cars together has been grew up in the business, working a constant in all three brothers’ lives. weekends and summers. I actually “I get to see my brothers 12 hours a decided not to go away to school to day, and not many people get to do stay in the family business. I went to that,” Brian said.

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The family at McCullough’s is In 2003, Eric bought out his fabigger than blood would show. “We ther’s company and trimmed the have great employees,” Rod said. family business to a single location.

“They’re really fun to work with, Built in the 1960s, the McCullough and most everyone is like our exrepair shop at 5810 Roswell Road tended family.” looks as if it belongs in the era of verAmong the brothers, Eric assumes satile car repair shops operated out command, giving orders to check up of gas stations. on a certain car or call up a customer.

But the unused gas pumps now His brothers often seem a step ahead. serve only as obstacles to the cars The whole process is designed to shuffling around the crowded parkkeep in contact with customers to ing lot. make sure they’re informed.

The trio of brothers learned evA customer of three years, Keri erything there was to know about Randal, said she took a chance with cars by hanging around their fathe shop when she first moved into ther’s shops on weekends and durSandy Springs and was pleased with ing breaks from school. Eric said his the personable atmosphere. father still serves as a mentor and “You know, it’s kind of iffy picksource of advice in the business. ing a mechanic, especially for a feOn any given work day, the three male,” she said. “But, they’re realMcCulloughs are seated at the helm ly good at explaining whatever the of the garage. As customers walk in, problem is. I do like that.”

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“Juneteenth” Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. – “Juneteenth: The

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5K gets under way! Race starts and finishes at Dunwoody Village. Winds along Mount Vernon and Womack roads. $25 until May 31; $30 after. Proceeds benefit ChristianRunners.org. Awards, postrace festivities, including food, drinks, music, vendors. 5515 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Contact Stephen Bolding at 770-356-3041 with any questions. Register for the race at http://zuluracing.com/racing-series.

Thursday, June 6, 2-4 p.m. – Find your center and truly relax this summer with a yoga class.

For middle and high school youth. Free and open to the community. Registration required. To sign up or to learn more, call 404-303-6130. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Turtle Tours Saturday, June 8, 11 a.m. – Heritage Sandy Springs presents “Turtle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for children ages 2-5, in the Heritage Sandy Springs Museum. Museum mascots “Sandy” the Chipmunk and “Spring” the Turtle introduce preschoolers to history. In this month’s program, Sandy and Spring “Go on Vacation.” Free; donations encouraged. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information visit: www. heritagesandysprings.org or call 404-851-9111.

Shadow Puppets Saturday, June 8, 1-2 p.m. – Check out the

puppet show, presented by Wild Goose Chase Theater. For ages 5-12. This special event is free and open to all. Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770512-4640 for more details.

Magic Shows Monday, June 10, 2 p.m. – Magician

Ken Scott dazzles you with his magic tricks.

Free. Everyone from the community is welcome. Appropriate for ages 5-12. Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee- Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-512-4640 to find out more. Ken also performs on Wednesday, June 12, from 2-2:45 p.m., at the Brookhaven Public Library. This free event is open to the first 30 participants. For groups of five or more, contact the branch for an appointment. 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-848-7140 to reserve a spot.

Clay Tales Tuesday, June 11, 4-5 p.m. – Listen to Roelna tell a story, then create some art about the story. Free. Appropriate for all ages. Open to the first 25 participants. Call 770-512-4640 or visit the branch to register. Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

Craft Closet Tuesday, June 11, 4-5 p.m. – Dig into the

Brookhaven Library’s Craft Closet, and make something fun out of the bits and pieces left over from previous crafts. Open to the first 10 participants. For groups of five or more, contact the branch for an appointment. Free and open to the community. For ages 5-12. 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Call 404-848-7140 to sign up.

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Youth Choir Concert Tuesday, June 4, 7 p.m. – Shallowford’s Chapel Choir, consisting of 65 singers from more than eight schools around Atlanta, in grades 7- 12, is taking their concert, “Let Your Life Shine,” on tour throughout the southeastern U.S. this summer.

Check them out at Northwest Presbyterian Church before they go on the road! The concert explores how faith, hope and love can help others. Open to all; a free-will offering to be taken at the event. 4300 Northside Dr., NW, Atlanta, 30327. For more details call 404-321-1844, go to: www.shallowford.org or email: music@shallowford.org.

The Jungle Book Wednesday, June 5, 3 p.m. – The Dunwoody

United Methodist Church puts on specially-adapted short performances of Disney’s “The Jungle Book.”

With colorful characters and a toe-tapping jungle rhythm, the musical includes many favorite Disney tunes: “The Bare Necessities” and “I Wan’na Be Like You.” Additional show at 7 p.m. Open to the community. Donations benefit the Atlanta Animal Alliance. 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody. Call 770-394-0675 with questions.

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Dunwoody United Methodist Church for the 75th anniversary of this classic American play by Thornton Wilder. Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children experience “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity” in the small town of Grover’s Corners.

Tickets, $10 at the door. Additional performances, June 15, 7 p.m.; June 16, 3 p.m. In Fellowship Hall.

1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-0675, email: kathy.kuntz@dunwoodyumc. org, or go to: www.dunwoodyumc.org to learn more.

annual Peachtree Hills Festival of the Arts brings 200 artists to the area for a two-day event. Festivities held in and around the Peachtree Hills Park & Recreation Center, including food, acoustic music and kids’ activities. Event continues Sunday, June 9, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission. Pets allowed on a leash.

Rain or shine. Parking restricted in residential neighborhoods. 308 Peachtree Hills Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-845-0793, email: info@affps.com or go to: www.affps.com with questions.

Ukulele Orchestra Sunday, June 9, 3 p.m. – Arts & Culture at the

Marcus Jewish Community Center –Atlanta welcomes the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn, in presenting “Missionary in Manhattan,” a new musical about three polygamist pop stars on the hunt for their husband in HOTlanta. Tickets: $15 for MJCCA members; $20, non-members; $10 for students. Show is for mature audiences only. Morris & Rae Frank Theatre, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For details or to purchase tickets, visit www. atlantajcc.org/boxoffice or call 678-812-4002.

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Thursday, June 6, 6-7:30 p.m. – The Blue

Heron Nature Preserve hosts an opening reception for its newest summer art exhibit: Awareness of Birds Thru Art: “Ugly Pretty,” by Allison Richter. Richter uses an impasto look and feel to add texture and depth to South Florida’s Roseate Spoonbills. Free and open to the public. Show continues through August 31. 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342. To learn more, call 404-345-1008, email: nancyjljones@mindspring.com or visit: www.bhnp.org.

Wednesday, June 12, 7-8 p.m. – Event fea-

tures Elaine Jo, who demonstrates Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Jiki to Hanga: Japanese Porcelain and Prints.” $5 admission; free for Oglethorpe University Museum members and children under 12. Free parking. Third Floor, Weltner Library, 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. For information, visit: http://museum. oglethorpe.edu or call 404-364-8555.

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Concerts are free for members; $5 for non-member adults; $3 for students. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-3322, email: info@ dunwoodynature.org or visit: www.dunwoodynature.org for details.

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Local collectors exhibit Japanese prints at Oglethorpe

BY MARTHA NODAR Sandy Springs art collectors Terry and Julia Taylor discovered Hiroshi Yoshida’s woodblock prints in the late 1960s, during their first visit to Japan.

While there, they met Yoshida’s cousin. They kept in touch with him after returning to the U.S. “He would send us the pieces over time,” Julia Taylor said. “My husband and I are not art experts. We just like these paintings and have been collecting them ever since.

They are very traditional. They look like watercolor.”

This summer, the Taylors are sharing their collection through an exhibition at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. “Jiki to Hanga: Japanese Porcelain and Prints,” showing through Aug. 25, includes prints, mostly from Yoshida, a 20th century Japanese artist, whose works are part of the Taylors’ private collection.

“It was my husband’s idea to lend these compositions to the university’s museum,” Taylor said. “We have so many pieces and we don’t have enough room at home.”

Taylor said Yoshida’s works remind her of paintings by the Impressionists, members of an artistic movement emerging during the second half of the 19th century. Impressionists were influenced by Japanese prints.

Yoshida, who mastered a water-based woodcut printing technique allowing a range of colors, is known for landscapes and showing people in everyday life. His goal was to appeal to the Western audience, while remaining faithful to the Japanese culture.

Sandy Springs resident Jose Soriano said he did some woodcut printing of his own as a hobby in his younger days, and appreciates the work involved in the process.

He also was impressed by the museum’s display, which used muted lighting and flowers resembling those found in Japanese gardens.

The ambiance was further enhanced by a younger generation of art enthusiasts who graced the galleries at the exhibit’s recent opening. Students from first through fifth grade from the Seigakuin Atlanta International School sang for museum patrons both in English and in Japanese.

“These prints are really fantastic and the museum is beautifully decorated—very minimalistic, very Japanese,” Soriano said.

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Above, students from the Seigakuin Atlanta International School sing for Oglethorpe Museum patrons during the opening of the exhibition, “Jiki to Hanga: Japanese Porcelain and Prints.”

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BY COLLIN KELLEY Modern Atlanta will host its sixth annual “Design is Human Week” June 1-9 to celebrate international design excellence.

Founded six years ago by Bernard McCoy and Elayne DeLeo, Modern Atlanta continues to grow in scope.

“Bernard and I are thrilled that MA has grown from its first Modern Home tour to what it has become today – a week-long series of events featuring talks, panel discussions, product launches and more,” DeLeo said.

Last year, the home tour expanded from Atlanta to showcase homes in Athens. This year, the tour, which will be held June 8-9, goes further afield with three homes open for tours in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C. But the bulk of the tour remains in metro Atlanta with 14 private homes, including a couple in Buckhead; lofts, gallery spaces and businesses; and even a place of worship located in Sandy Springs.

Homes on the tour include the Conquest residence in Ormewood Park, Whitespace Gallery in Inman Park, TaC Studios in the Old Fourth Ward, the Pollan-Hernandez loft in Midtown, Seal Pavilion in Decatur, Lightroom Studio in Decatur, Fier Studio in North Druid Hills, the Dyson home in Druid Hills,

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Left, the Sarvis residence in Buckhead, designed by Dencity, was constructed with local stone, cypress, European stucco and commercial glass. The T-shaped plan creates a private area in the back that contains an outdoor patio and pool. The Earthcraft-certified home also has a distinct roof form, which makes it appear to be lifting off the house. Located near Phipps Plaza, the Bongers residence, right, was built on what was once thought to be an unbuildable lot because a winding stream bisected the property. The unique design of the home allows a portion of the front corner of the home to cantilever over the floodplain area and not to encroach into the stream itself.

the Bongers home in Buckhead, the Sarvis home in Buckhead, the Schlumberger residence and Nancy Creek Pool House near Vinings, Congregation Or Hadash in Sandy Springs and the Koblick residence in Roswell.

Home tour tickets, which include the North Carolina residences, are $35 and can be purchased at modern-atlanta.org.

More Highlights Keynote address by architect John Picard and Design Within reach ceo John edelman at High Museum. (June 3) Screening of documentary “Gehry’s Vertigo,” about the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain at WhiteSpace Gallery. (June 8) Design exhibition at ADAc in Peachtree Hills. (June 6-8) Design Is Material (DIM), a trade exhibition that celebrates and promotes innovation and creativity of manufacturers, architects and designers at The Sound Table/Space 2. (June 6-8) For a complete schedule of all events taking place at Design is Human Week, visit modern-atlanta.org.

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Chevra kadishas provide “the ultimate kindness”

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It may not be the most popular comteering in 1996. She was inspired to help mittee at the synagogue. others after her brother died from a long But rabbis say volunteering for a battle with melanoma. chevra kadisha is one of the most imWolfson said after watching her portant and selfless things one can do. brother suffer, she remembers feeling A chevra kadisha is a group of peoa sense of peace when he passed away, ple who perform the ritual blessing and knowing that his suffering was over. cleansing of a body before a Jewish fu“There’s a peacefulness, and mayneral. Typically composed of three to be that’s what I’ve found comforting,” five volunteers, there are two chevra Wolfson said. “It’s very sacred, I supkadisha groups at each synagogue bepose, and a feeling of comfort that this cause they are sepaperson is now going rated by gender. Men to rest.” tend to men, while It’s also a quiet women tend to womand humble kind of “I have a lot of respect en. service. for the people who take Literally translatKassorly said voled, “chevra means this on. It’s not always an unteers rarely talk easy job and one where this collegial group. about their service Kadisha means this there’s not a lot of glory or with the chevra kadiholy collegial group sha and often, the - those two words recognition. But it’s a very names of the volunare Aramaic, actually meaningful act of service.” teers are kept private.

- a collegial group of “It’s supposed to – raBBi JosHua Heller holiness,” said Rabbi be so secretive beconGreGation B’nai toraH Hayyim Kassorly of cause it’s done for Congregation Or Ve no credit. You can’t Shalom in Brookhavbe thanked,” Kassoren. ly said. “So the idea is if you don’t know To be part of a chevra kadisha, one the person’s name you can’t thank them.” must have a flexible schedule that can But once a year, volunteers from Atdefer to death. When volunteers are lanta-area chevra kadishas are honored called, they have to be ready to show up for their service at a city-wide dinner. within 24 hours to prepare a body for Fred Glusman, the chaplain at The burial.

Carlton Assisted Living and Memory “I have a lot of respect for the peoCare in Sandy Springs, said he organized ple who take this on. It’s not always an the first chevra kadisha dinner in 1983. easy job and one where there’s not a lot Glusman said it is common in many of glory or recognition. But it’s a very Jewish communities to have an annual meaningful act of service,” said Rabbi dinner to thank chevra kadisha volunJoshua Heller of Congregation B’nai Toteers, but he said Atlanta is the only city rah in Sandy Springs. he knows of that brings together volunAccording to Jewish tradition, a body teers from all the synagogues in the area. must be buried as quickly as possible af“Too many times we are divided in ter death. The chevra kadisha performs a certain areas of worship, and this is one ritual cleansing and blessing of the body area where everybody is on same wavebefore dressing the deceased in the simlength,” Glusman said. “I think it’s imple, white shrouds that Jews are tradiportant for reform, orthodox and contionally buried in. servative (Jews) to meet each other and “They have a great responsibility besee that everybody is doing this same act cause they are literally preparing us for of kindness.” life after life,” Kassorly said.

Steve Schaikewitz, who volunteers Rabbis say Judaism holds chevra for the chevra kadisha at Congregation kadishas in high regard.

Ariel in Dunwoody, said he likes feeling “It’s the ultimate kindness because it’s connected to tradition. a kindness that a person can never re“As a Jew, you know this is the way pay,” Heller said. “I know they are nevit’s been done for thousands of years,” er going to return the favor to me, so it’s Schaikewitz said. “You’re part of a tradidoing a kindness for the sake of doing a tion. You’re one of a long line.” kindness.”

Heller said chevra kadishas are conRabbis and volunteers emphasize fronted with death in a very personal that there is a great sense of respect and way. dignity that goes into the burial prepa“We as a society tend to keep a disrations. And the people who volunteer tance from death,” Heller said. “A lot of for chevra kadisha say they take comfort people are not used to being hands-on knowing they can help the dead find with the experience of death, which is a peace. mixed blessing. For people who particiBarbara Wolfson, co-chair of the pate in chevra kadisha, it creates a differwomen’s chevra kadisha at Congregaent kind of appreciation for the sanctity tion B’nai Torah, said she began volunof life and the meaning of death.”

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You can make all the difference CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8

If Not Me, Who? If Not Now, When? Ask yourself this; it helps you step up and speak up when you need to. This has guided me through life – just as it did my mom.

You Define You. Never forget where you came from, but remember, you are not solely defined by your circumstances or your history; you can reinvent yourself many times over if needed. Look at my story – nothing about my background would suggest I would have ended up where I did. I created my own narrative. I believed my mom when she said, “You can do anything.”

Not only did I believe her, but I helped others believe it too.

No Borders No Boundaries. When I was 19, I was asked to go open the company’s first restaurant in Australia. I had never been out of the state of Florida, had never been on a plane (or any other type of mass transit for that matter), and of course, I did not have a passport. But none of that stopped me. I said yes, and then figured it out. The only boundaries to your growth and experiences are those you mentally put up, or those you allow others to put upon you.

“It doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much money you have, or what a great school you go to; if you can’t build meaningful relationships and work well with others to influence them, your other attributes can only go so far.”

—Kat cole

Be Curious. Have a Constant Pursuit of Education, and Have a Bias for Action. The most creative and accomplished people I know have this in common.

They are constantly learning at every opportunity; they know they don’t know it all. They ask, “why, how, why not?” And, when they get the answers, they share what they learn and do something about it. Your mind is something others can never take away – feed it.

Volunteer. Give. For the job, for the community, for those in need. We all need a hand up some times, and giving of yourself is one of the best ways to learn, grow, meet people and make a difference. The reason I was asked to open that first international restaurant was because I raised my hand to help with jobs others didn’t want. After about a year, I had worked every job in the building. Who knew that would make me the top candidate for international travel, which ultimately would change my life.

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Life is most about relationships – if nothing else.

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There are others, but time and space won’t allow them all to be shared here. So keep these final two contrasting points in mind. You have all the time in the world; you are young and have a bright future. But! You have to live and love like there is no tomorrow, because there are no guarantees in life. If you want to change something, say something or do something, do it. Don’t wait for someone else to do it for you, allow someone else to do it instead of you, or miss the opportunity, because it’s gone. The world needs awesome, ambitious, kind, curious, creative people to step up and speak up to continue to make it a better place to live.

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Valedictorians and salutatorians

High schools honor their valedictorians and salutatorians Graduation season 2013 arrived amid a flurry of final tests, the awarding of diplomas and the distribution of honors to high-achieving students. Here are some of the top achievers among high school students in the Reporter Newspapers communities, the valedictorians and salutatorians.

Atlanta Girls’ School

Ferra Pinnock Valedictorian Yale University

Sarah Diamond Salutatorian Florida State University

Atlanta International School

Alexandra Zdonczyk Valedictorian Washington University

Lucien Viala Salutatorian McGill University

Chamblee Charter High

Monica Agrawal Valedictorian Stanford University

Christa Kelly Valedictorian Western Carolina

Dunwoody High

Hardika Dhir Hayley Hopkins Valedictorian Valedictorian Georgia Tech Northwestern

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Andrew Tsao Salutatorian Georgia Tech

Brandon Hall

Tram Thuy Le Baishen Huang Michelle Leonard Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Georgia Perimeter Georgia Tech U of South Carolina

Cross Keys High

Kevin Reagan Salutatorian University of Miami

Ranulfo Ramos Santos Valedictorian Pomona College

Najdat Zohbi Salutatorian Emory

Holy Innocents’ Episcopal

Holy Spirit Preparatory High

Kendall Jackson Valedictorian Harvard University

Clara Diodati Valedictorian Thomas Aquinas College

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James Best Salutatorian Harvey Mudd College

Anna Resnick Salutatorian Durham University

Valedictorians and salutatorians The Lovett School

Elizabeth Wesley Valedictorian University of Georgia

Melissa Li Salutatorian MIT

North Atlanta High

Ian Katz Valedictorian University of California

Eva May Salutatorian Duke University

Riverwood International Charter

Ariel Pinskey Valedictorian University of Georgia

Hannah Weiss Salutatorian University of Georgia

Marist School

Jack Leahey Valedictorian Princeton University

Jason Morris Salutatorian Yale University

Mount Vernon Presbyterian

Corey Knapp Valedictorian University of Georgia

North Springs High

Emily Grace Kelly Valedictorian U of North Carolina

Aaron Hochman Salutatorian University of Chicago

St. Pius X Catholic High

David Spratte Valedictorian U of North Carolina

Barbara Anne Kozee Salutatorian Georgetown University

Megan McBryde Salutatorian U of South Carolina

Pace Academy

Andrew Schettino Valedictorian U of Pennsylvania

Meredith Bradshaw Salutatorian Vanderbilt University

The Weber School

Gavriella Mendel Valedictorian University of Georgia

Ben Stolovitz Salutatorian Washington University

The Westminster Schools

Meg Panetta Valedictorian Harvard University

Joe Sheehan Valedictorian Princeton University

Lilly Chin Salutatorian MIT

Kunal Kamath Salutatorian Duke University

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Standout Students

Student Profile:

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Jon Adelman Jared Allen Annie Armstrong Jack Assaf Max Barab Megan Blasberg Jenna Blumenthal Sallie Boone Jack Bowen Meredith Bradshaw Robert Brooks Tiger Brown Natalie Camrud Joe Capelouto Healy Chait Paula Cheng Ryan Christianson Brianna Cochran Asante Crews Kate Cunningham Djibril Diakite Amber Easley Adam Ellender Jordan Epstein Maddie Everett

Morgan Frazier Taj Gillani Jeff Handler Sallie Hays Caroline Herman Ben Hirsch Tommy Hoff Jeffrey Jones Joey Kimmel Philip Kim Brian Klarman Morgan Krohngold Morgan Lambert Maryse Lapu Renee Lewis Haley Lowrey Katja Martin Andy McCall John McCrea Megan McCurry Kelly McGonnigle Lauren Melville Abbie Milich Suzanne Monyak Maria Moraitakis

Ben Moreland Harry Moreland Sara Mullally Alex Nash Mitch Nemeth Kahlil Nevett-James David Ninan Emily Pair Alex Paré Annie Kate Pottle Caroline Powers Sajat Rabbani Alexander Reckford William Sadlo Bria Samuels Andrew Schettino Tate Schreiner Taylor Schofield Jordan Schuchmann Lauren Schaffer Sam Schaffer James Seaman Miles Sheft Jon Shingler Jake Silverstein

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Victor Skenderi Caroline Smith Madison Snyder Zach Steinfeld Ariel Stern Billy Stonecipher Mary Madison Tesler Kate Thomson Madison Thorne Momo Trang Georgia Tse Adrianna Urquieta Jake Wawro Ellie Weber David Weiner Lucy Wellborn Jason Wiener Reid Williams Sydney Willis Claire Wiskind Michelle Yancich Evan Young Steven Zeldin Lindsey Zwecker

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 Joe Sheehan  The Westminster Schools, graduate Joe Sheehan likes staying busy. He covers a lot of ground.

During The Westminster Schools’ recent graduation, Joe was named co-valedictorian, meaning he attained the highest grade-point average among the boys graduating this year.

He earned that GPA while engaged in a number of after-school activities, ranging from running a student newspaper to running competitively as part of the track team. He was captain of the cross-country team, a sport he says he was drawn to as a discipline of the mind.

“I like running cross country because of the mental struggle that it presents,” he said As co-editor of the student newspaper, the Westminster Bi-Line, Joe collaborated with other student editors to assign articles to others on the staff, edit and publish them. He started working for the paper during his freshman year.

Another creative aspect of his high school life involves studying and making art. Joe was also an editor for Embryo, a publication put together by group of students who meet and critique

Congratulations Davis Academy Class of 2013!

art works submitted by members of the Westminster student body.

An Advanced Placement class in twodimensional art studies developed Joe’s interest in books and the world they create. He decided to focus on the distinction between reality and fantasy. Using book jackets, Joe created landscapes and images with different layers.

As a Young Democrat and a member of the school’s Model United Nations program, Joe debated political issues.

Throughout the year, he met with classmates to debate the country’s healthcare needs or compare the fiscal plans presented by candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Now, Joe wants to fly airplanes.

He has been working since his sophomore year to earn his flying license and hopes to receive it this summer. To get a license, he must learn how to fly a plane in both good and bad weather, know air traffic laws, and learn how to navigate a plane without using a GPS. That should help him cover even more ground.

What’s Next: Joe plans on attending Princeton University in the fall.

This article was reported and written

by Sierra Middleton, a student at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School.

A big thanks

Micah Barich Sari Bircoll Sophie Blasberg Emily Brothman Nathaniel Buffington Halle Busby Sophia Bussey Carly Clayman Benjamin Cohen Jacob Cohen Matt Diamond Levi Durham Peyton Edelson

Max Ervin Lyndsi Fisher Rachel Fisher Sophia Frankel Carolyn Friedman Max Friedman Neta Gal Lindsey Gillman David Glass Jordan Goldstein Jodi Gottlieb Jenna Grossman Joshua Gurin

Samantha Hardy Alex Heller Brandon Jaffe Max Kamean Jacob Karsch Tyler Knight Amanda Kraun Avielle Krug Emily Kurzweil Samuel Kuttner Olivia Lesnick Willie Lieberman Joshua Lipton

Jaron Longo Caitlyn Margol Emily Nadel Shelby Nemhauser Caroline Perlis Korin Pinsky Hannah Prass Zachary Rosenberg Peyton Rosenberg Julia Rosenthal Elijah Rosner Alec Rosner Jenna Rubin

In the spirit of community, we are also pleased to celebrate the 2013 graduates of The Amit Gar’inim School, which has been based on the campuses of The Davis Academy since its inception in 2002: Lauren Mary Stone • Max Isaac Sweeting

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Melanie Sandler Sophie Schiff Allison Shindell Emma Sidman Rebecca Simonoff Jack Solomon Bari Steel Alana Stein Scott Storper Jessica Thompson Dawson Vainer Joshua Weintraub Noah Weiser Proud Affiliate of:

Alexander West Ross Williams Maxwell Winter Olivia Wolf Jessica Zeewy Sophie Zelony

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We want to note the accomplishments of two of our own: high school interns Stacy Bubes and Mikayla Farr.

Stacy graduated from Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Stacy Bubes High School and plans to study at the University of Michigan.

Mikayla graduated from Riverwood International Charter School and plans to attend the Mikayla Farr University of Miami. She won a Ronald A. Hammond scholarship and also was selected as a Gates Millenium Scholar.

eDuCaTIOn Student Profile:  Megan McCurry  Pace Academy, graduate Megan McCurry has been singing just about since she was able to talk.

Her love of music led to the theater.

Megan has taken part in 15 plays and taken the lead role in five of them. Last fall, she played Maria in Pace Academy’s production of “West Side Story.”

“I hope to continue to be in musicals and continue to sing. I love performing,” Megan said.

Megan has been praised for her theatrical talent with over 15 awards in this area over her high school career. She has the knack to adapt when a role calls for it -- she had to learn to roller skate and perform for her part in Xanadu. “I am very proud of my achievements in the arts and the roles I have played,” Megan said. “I will never forget how much fun I had in Pace Theatre!”

One of her teachers, Beth Barrow-Titus, describes Megan as one of the “most gifted female singers I have encountered over my course of 42 years of teaching.”

But Megan is engaged in plenty of offstage activities, too.

She volunteers with the Homeless Pets Foundation each weekend, she said.

She combined this program with Pace’s Service Learning Program, through which students to help out with animals and earn service hours. “I do this because I have loved animals my entire life,” she said.

In the peer-tutoring program at Pace, Megan helps younger students with Spanish and physics. And as secretary of Pace’s student advisory group, Megan helps students deal with social and health issues by promoting healthy eating, learning how to cope with stress, and fighting self-harm.

She also is involved in Pace’s literary magazine, The Knight Gallery. Megan is the assistant editor of the magazine. Stu-

dents submit their literary work to be reviewed and, if accepted, published in the magazine. “The variety of pieces we see is very exciting,” Megan said, “and it was always fun to have a break from my homework or everyday life just to read poems and prose.”

In the classroom, Megan especially enjoys science and math courses.

She lists biology, statistics, calculus and chemistry among her favorites, but says she enjoys her chorus class, too.

“Megan is an extremely diligent worker in every arena,” Barrow-Titus said. “The faculty and her peers respect her, and she possesses a passion for the sciences. She is an amazing young woman!”

What’s Next: Next fall, Megan will be attending Rice University to major in biochemistry and cell biology. She hopes to study and make a difference in microbiological research. She also says she would love to keep singing and performing.

This summer Megan will be volunteering at the Boulis Lab at Emory University, gaining some experience before college. This lab focuses on the research of gene therapy and stem cells.

This article was reported and written

by Emma McCabe, a student at Riverwood International Charter High School.

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Off into the world North Springs Charter High School said “farewell” to its 2013 graduates during a ceremony at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on May 23.

Right, Principal Dr. Lisa Stueve addresses the crowd.

Below, graduate Paige Martin lets everyone know that she’s the one under the mortarboard.

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Caps and gowns Riverwood International Charter School’s graduating seniors said goodbye on May 24, during commencement exercises at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. Left, Mia Bomar, at right, receives her diploma from Principal Ron Tesch.

Below, seniors listen intently. Right, graduates wait in line as family and friends look on.

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Time to fly Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School shone the spotlight on its graduating seniors on May 24. Left, at the podium, Valedictorian Kendall Jackson delivers her address to fellow graduates as, center, Upper School Principal Chris Durst, and Associate Headmaster Rick Betts, right, look on. Right, caps are tossed into the air in the school’s main gym after graduation.

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BY HILARY BUTSCHEK Local police will check on empty homes this summer to ease vacationers’ worries.

Want police officers to check House-check programs are a free service on your home while you’re provided to citizens by police in which ofaway? Here’s how to contact ficers periodically check homes for suspithem to request the service. cious activity while residents are away.

While the Atlanta Police Department Sandy Springs: does not offer the service, other local dewww.sandyspringspolice. partments do, including the ones in Sandy org/forms/ Springs and Dunwoody. And BrookhavOutOfTownRegistrationForm. en Police Chief Gary Yandura said he plans to start a house-check program in aspx that city once his officers hit the streets Dunwoody: this summer. www.dunwoodyga.gov/ The use of the house-check programs departments/dunwoodyincreases over the summer and especially on holidays, said Larry Jacobs, the police-department/ crime preventions specialist for the Sandy Community-Outreach/ Springs Police Department.

InteractiveDefense.aspx Sandy Springs police are usually checking on 40 to 50 houses each week in the summer, a number that can double on holidays, Jacobs said. Dunwoody police tion such as the dates they will be away, check anywhere from 30 to 50 homes what types of cars are expected to be at at any one time during the holiday seathe home, alarm system information and son, Tim Fecht, the emergency contacts. community outOfficers check the reach officer for the houses each day as Dunwoody Police time permits.

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Jacobs said: “911 Although these calls are their first checkups cannot priority, but in beguarantee total safetween answering ty, Fecht said the 911 calls, we ask programs, like a lot that they check out of police work, are these areas. They beneficial because look for anything they are proactive. suspicious, like a “One of the great door kicked in or a things about it is smashed window.” that you’re not only When officers “911 calls are their first bringing the officers are busy, volunpriority, but in between and the volunteers teers who have gone to your house, but through a police answering 911 calls, we also in your neightraining program ask that they check out borhood,” Jacobs check on the housthese areas. They look said. es. Both officers and for anything suspicious, Dunwoody povolunteers contact lice doing house homeowners if they like a door kicked in or checks have caught see anything amiss. a smashed window.” potential “weak Dunwoody ofpoints” in houses in fers a similar ser– LaRRy JaCOBS the past, Fecht said. vice. Residents can CRIMe PReVenTIOnS SPeCIaLIST “It has happened sign up through its SanDy SPRInGS several times where neighborhood alerts POLICe DePaRTMenT we’ve found a door system, known as unlocked and we Interactive Defense. call the homeowner, “We do a perimand they’ll say ‘Oh, eter check,” Fecht I forgot,’” Fecht said. said. “We walk around and make sure all Fecht said he cannot remember a house the doors and windows are secure, and evbeing broken into while on the houseerything looks good.” watch program. “It adds another layer of Dunwoody police then communicate security and comfort,” Fecht said, “and it’s to the absent homeowner whether or not someone you can trust, so if something they discover anything out of the ordinary, were to happen, be it natural disaster or Fecht said. criminal, we will be there.”

“The officer can leave a note digitally Residents of Sandy Springs can sign up on the web saying everything looks secure, for the out-of-town house-check program and the homeowner can choose to receive on the police department’s website. Resithat message as a text or an email,” Fecht dents fill out a form, providing informasaid.

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 1500 block of Spring Creek Lane 30350

– On May 21, a resident said he took a morning walk and found his door open when he returned. Someone had gotten in and taken several items including his TV, iPad, laptop and Canon camera.

 400 block of Morgan Falls Drive 30350 –

On May 21, the resident reported that someone accessed his storage closet. There was no forced entry. Several items were taken.

 8100 block of Colquitt Road 30350 – on

May 22, someone entered the victim’s home through a front door and took a TV.

been opened and the credit cards (new) had been taken. She has a community mailbox she shares with nine others.  One option: Have your mail sent to a post

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THEF T F R OM VEHICL ES  Articles were stolen from vehicles on the

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 500 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road

30342, May 21

 7500 block block of Read more of the of Roswell Road Huntcliff Trace Police Blotter online at 30350, May 21 30350 – On May 22, www.reporternewspapers.net a man reported  6100 block of that while he was Lake Forrest Drive gone during the 30328, May 22 afternoon, someone entered his home by forcing a rear door. It appears the  200 block of Winding River Drive 30350 suspect looked around, but at the time May 22 of the report nothing was known to be missing.

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 200 block of Sandy Springs Place 30328 –

On May 20, an employee of Kroger said he placed his wallet on one of the selfservice checkout locations and someone took it.

 Londonberry Road 30342 – On May 20,

the resident reported that several items of jewelry were missing from the home.

 A resident on Belle Isle Road reported that

when she returned from out of town, she found a Bank of America envelope that had

was contacted by Capital One because someone in Decatur tried to obtain a credit card in her name using her Social Security number.

 A resident at The Landing in Sandy

Springs said someone used her husband’s checking account information to pay bills in California. About $2,000 was taken from the account. A car note, cable bill, and energy bill were paid.

 A man called police and said he was

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ASSAU LT  Officers responded to the first block of Ce-

dar Run where a man had been struck by a rock. The man’s wife said someone hit him in the head, and as the suspect fled, someone yelled “Justin,” which may be the name of a suspect. The man was transported to the hospital.

 4700 block of Roswell Road 30342 – on

May 22 a woman told officers that she and her boyfriend had a four-year relationship but broke up a month ago.

She allowed him to stay at the apartment for one month. They got into an argument over his accusation of her infidelity. She countered with his infidelity. Soon the argument turned physical.

Both were charged.

ARRESTS  A man was arrested for stealing a wash-

ing machine and two dryers from the Park Towers Apartments in the 700 block of

Hammond Drive in 2012. He was in white pickup with a dealer drive-out tag which a witness recorded. He was arrested approximately two weeks ago and charged with the theft.

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 Around 9:30 p.m., cops responded to

Genki’s Sushi Bar at the Prado on a complaint of a drunken woman who left without paying the bill. The officers were told that she was intoxicated and tried to use several credit cards which were either declined or otherwise not usable. She then ran from the location and unsuccessfully tried to hide at a nearby business. Upon being confronted, she ran again and hid under a trash receptacle, which is where she remained until the officers arrived. The officer saw a woman lying under the trash receptacle in a mix of liquid and solid garbage. She continued to try to be invisible while the officer was talking to her, but eventually she crawled out from under the trash receptical. The officer called several people on her behalf to pay the $35 tab but no luck. She was arrested.

 A patrol officer spotted a car with dark,

tinted windows. The car was stopped. The officer reported that the man was nervous and the officer smelled marijuana. The man said he didn’t have his driver’s license on him and gave him a name, but the registration information from the tag, including the owner’s photo, didn’t match. The officer asked to look in the car and found a wallet with what appeared to be correct information on that man. The man in the car had a suspension on his license for narcotics violations. He was later arrested for identity fraud, no license, having a suspended license, and the improper use of that license.

 6400 block of Peachtree Dunwoody Road

30328 – On May 22, a man was arrested after he was spotted at Home Depot putting items in one of the large, plastic orange buckets and then walking out the garden section without paying. He had taken two Husky impact wrenches ($158) and a couple of other items. He went to jail.

OT HE R TH I N G S  A woman on North River Parkway filed a

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She told them to stop and to behave. They pushed her in the pool. She swam out. The kids fled the scene.

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