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JUNE 12 — JUNE 25, 2015 • VOL. 9 — NO. 12
Docents return to Oglethorpe museum OUT & ABOUT 18
Where’s the coffee?
FAITH 6-7
Golfers object to shortening Bobby Jones Golf Course to nine holes BY JOE EARLE
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PHIL MOSIER
Left, Lori Maggioni, dressed as bacon, and Merideth Reagan, as an egg, are in the spirit of things during the Mountain Way Common Midnight Pajama Jog on June 6. The second annual 5K and walk encourages entrants to wear pajamas, with proceeds benefiting the park. See more photos on page 2.
Skeptical golfers packed the Buckhead clubhouse of the Bobby Jones Golf Course to hear proposals on how best to fix up the venerable city-owned golf course named for an Atlanta golf icon. “We think Bobby Jones is not broken,” Anthony Smith of the Friends of the Bobby Jones Golf Course told the crowd. The Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy, a nonprofit that supports the park that contains the golf course, is proposing that the city undertake a substantial renovation of the nearly 200-acre park. City parks officials are collecting public comment on the proposal before deciding what to do. City officials said they had collected more than 200 comments on the plan during a meeting April 27. SEE GOLFERS, PAGE 4
This 11 year old can play baseball ... and a national all-girls tournament came calling BY MARY HELEN KELLY When spectators sit and watch the Rangers of the Northside Youth Organization play baseball, they see a field full of kids with caps on and gloves down, ready for action at every pitch. A long blonde ponytail sticks out of the back of one cap. It belongs to 11-year-old Olivia Bailey, the only girl on this NYO All-Star team and the only girl in her age group in the baseball organization based at Chastain Park. “A lot of times people don’t know what to expect
when she hops in the batter’s box, but as soon as she starts swinging, people start paying attention,” said her dad, Jimmy Bailey. Olivia began playing when she was 8 and “fell in love with it.” She’s played ever since, and has been selected for multiple NYO All-Star teams. She plays middle infield, pitches, and regularly bats near the top of the lineup. This summer, she took her game to a new level. She SEE BUCKHEAD, PAGE 2
Olivia Bailey is the only girl on her NYO All-Star team.
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