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Community Briefs TWO NEW M EM B ER S APPO INTED TO PLANNING CO M M ISSIO N
Dunwoody Mayor Denis Shortal has appointed Thomas O’Brien and Richard Grove to three-year terms on the Planning Commission. The appointments were approved by the City Council at its July 26 meeting. Shortal also appointed and received approval for Rob Augustine to serve a three-year term on the Urban Redevelopment Agency. Augustine was president of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association from 1994-95. He is an attorney specializing in areas including permitting, approvals and zoning. Grove lives in the Ashworth community and is the president of his neighborhood’s HOA. He served on the city’s Community Council before it was dissolved last year. He works at his family’s business, DeKalb Tool & Die. O’Brien is a partner at the law firm of Fieler and Associates in Marietta. He has been president of the Dunwoody North Driving Club and is the community chairperson for Cub Scout Pack 477 at Kingswood United Methodist Church.
SPECIAL
Kitchen and glassware of all kinds are plentiful at the Cathedral Thrift House located at 1893 Piedmont Road.
C O M M UN IT Y I N S TI TUTION S’ A N N I V ER S A RI ES
In Buckhead, two community institutions, Covenant Presbyterian Church and the Cathedral of St. Philip Thrift House, are celebrating decades of service. Covenant Presbyterian Church is celebrating 90 years of service from its sanctuary at 2461 Peachtree Road. “In our 90 years on Peachtree Road, we’ve weathered a lot of changes, especially in geography, demographics, culture and politics,” said interim pastor Rev. Dr. Richard Hill. “Throughout it all, we have sought out opportunities to do God’s work, and I am confident we will continue to do so for the next 90 years and beyond.” Covenant Presbyterian had its early beginnings in 1874 as an outreach church of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in Tennessee. Over the next 30 years, the new congregation met in borrowed space, disbanded and re-formed, and built a church at the corner of Harris and Spring streets in 1904. Harris Street Presbyterian Church was known for its open door policy, and strengthened that reputation during World War I by inviting soldiers of all faiths to the church for services and social events. The Cathedral of St. Philip Thrift House, which began in 1947 in a church basement, has grown into a 6,600-squarefoot warehouse, but its mission to serve the community by selling quality goods at affordable prices remains the same. So does giving 100 percent of the profits back to local charities. DUN
‘TRA I L B LAZER ’ SIG NS TO G U ID E TO U R ISTS TO CIVIL WAR HISTO R ICAL SITES
Tourists will be able to drive to Civil War historical sites with the help of “trailblazer” signage located in Dunwoody as part of a statewide program. The Georgia Heritage Trails nonprofit organization is implementing historic driving routes through the state. The or-
ganization’s largest project is called the Atlanta Campaign & March to the Sea Heritage Trails. It involves dozens of new National Park Service style “interpretive markers” linked by colorful roadway “trailblazer” directional signage at hundreds of locations along many of the same roads once traveled by opposing armies, explained Assistant City Manager Jessica Guinn in a memo last month to the City Council. The Atlanta Campaign Heritage Trail begins in far northwest Georgia and winds south through metro Atlanta. A short segment of the route will pass through the city of Dunwoody, Guinn explained. There is no timeline for when the signs will be installed. “Although none of the historically significant sites along the trail are within Dunwoody, the organization plans to install this directional signage at four locations in Dunwoody in order to guide travelers along the trail from the Roswell Mills to the Atlanta History Center,” she stated. “Trailblazer” signs will be installed by the Georgia Department of Transportation at no cost to the city at these locations: 1. Southbound Roberts Drive at Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, proceeding south on Chamblee-Dunwoody Road; 2.
Southbound Chamblee-Dunwoody Road before Mount Vernon Highway;
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Westbound Mount Vernon Highway before AshfordDunwoody Road;
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Southbound Ashford-Dunwoody Road, just beyond Hammond Drive.