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Following a period of uncertainty earlier this year when three Buckhead schools in the Atlanta Public School System were facing vacancies in their principal positions, the 2014-15 school year Leaders ready kicked off Aug. 4 with new faces in for school year the top spots. pages 16-17.

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The emotional neighborhood debate over whether to house six priests in a rectory on West Wesley Drive heads to a city zoning review board this month.

The Archdiocese of Atlanta proposes to expand and convert a home at 136 W. Wesley Drive so it can house the priests, who now live in the rectory at the Cathedral of Christ the King on Peachtree Road.

But residents who live near the West Wesley house oppose the plan, saying the archdiocese wants to construct a building that is too large and will be too busy for their neighborhood. One resident compared

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Historic painting’s relocation more than a trip across town

BY COLLIN KELLEY Relocating the Cyclorama painting to the Atlanta History Center means more than a simple move across town for an historic work of art.

The $32 million project will feature construction of a new 23,000-squarefoot building on the history center’s Buckhead campus, restoration of the 128-year-old painting to its full size, and relocation of the locomotive “Texas” and other Civil War artifacts to the center.

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ter is the best long-term solution for the Cyclorama. Sharing history is our passion, and we are excited about incorporating these artifacts into our comprehensive Civil War collection,” said Sheffield Hale, president and CEO of the Atlanta History Center.

“We will preserve the Cyclorama in a museum-quality environment that will ensure its availability and accessibility for generations to come. Our resources and expertise uniquely position us to interpret the painting and diorama in their historic context,” Hale added.

The history center plans to begin construction next summer on a new home for the display, and the attraction is expected to open in 2016.

The project will be completed with money already raised by the center, and a $10 million donation from Atlanta art patrons Lloyd and Mary Ann Whitaker.

The Atlanta History Center intends to restore the painting – which depicts the Battle of Atlanta – to its original size and height by recreating a 50-foottall, 6-foot-wide panel that had been removed so the work could fit in the Grant Park building where it had been housed.

That building will be given to Zoo Atlanta once the painting is removed.

The American Panorama Company created the huge painting in Milwaukee between 1885 and 1886. The completed work was 50-feet high, 400-feet long, and weighed more than 9,000 pounds.

The painting toured a number of cities, and was bought and sold numerous times before being purchased by Atlantan George V. Gress in 1893. Gress asked the city of Atlanta to find space for the painting, and city officials offered Grant Park.

A wooden, drum-like structure was built for the painting and Gress gave the piece to the city in 1898. The Grant Park building was dedicated in 1921 and the three-dimensional diorama was added in 1936.

City officials have discussed moving the Cyclorama for years. While the city will still own the painting, the history center’s stewardship will save the city about $1 million a year in operating costs.

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Fly loft or no fly loft? Medium or Performing arts centers are expensive large stage? Concert or theater seating? because of structural features, heating These are some of the options Sandy and air conditioning necessities, acousSprings city leaders must weigh if they tics, lighting and decorative finishes, he move forward with plans to include a said. performing arts facility as part of the fuThe final cost of the whole project, ture city center. including the addition of meeting space, Sandy Springs city center master deoffices, parking and road improvements, velopers and planners presented options is estimated to be $169.3 million to for a facility at a special called Sandy $196.6 million.

Springs City Council meeting on July City Manager John McDonough dis23. cussed ways the city might pay for the George Bushey, with Rosser Internaproject. He said the city could use a tional, the city center architect, presentcombination of options, including funded three performing art center theater raising, using money set aside, land sales options with differing seat counts. to developers, using money already ear“When you talk about a performing marked for the city center, using money arts center, it can mean a lot of things the city currently uses to lease City Hall, to a lot of people,” he said. “It can be an and bonds. entertainment venue At an open that has music shows, house the next evecomedy, rock ‘n’ roll ning, longtime Sanacts. It can be a playdy Springs residents “When you talk about a house that houses reperforming arts center, it Carol and Andy Heygional and local theward, who served on can mean a lot of things ater. It can be a full the Committee for Broadway and conSandy Springs, a to a lot of people.” cert venue. group instrumental “The difference is in incorporating the – GEORGE BUSHEY the stage and fly loft, city, said they suphow you hold the ported building a CITY CENTER ARCHITECT event . . . the seatperforming arts cening capacity . . . and ter in the city. how you configure Carol Heyward the seats.” said they are season The presentation included buildings ticket holders for the Lyric Theatre in with small, medium and large stages, Marietta, where they will usually eat dineach seating 600, 800 or 1,000. ner before a show. “I’d much rather go to The planners were presenting the a show and eat at a restaurant here,” she options based on a feasibility study by said, adding that she lives about a mile Johnson Consulting that recommended from the future city center site. a 750-seat to 1,000-seat facility that also Fran Farias, a Rotary Club of Sanincluded meeting space. dy Springs officer, said she is “pro” perJohn Jokerst, with Carter/Selig, the forming arts center. “I think having an city center master developer, gave a runevent-type facility in the city of Sandy down of building costs associated with Springs is critical,” she said. different stage sizes and options, which To view the performing arts center range from $24 million to $42.6 milpresentation, visit www.sandyspringscilion. tycenter.com.

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Rectory debate moves to city zoning adjustment board CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

the rectory to a boarding house.

“This is a very large structure,” lawyer Hakim Hilliard, who is representing residents opposed to the project, told members of the zoning committee of Neighborhood Planning Unit-B during a meeting July 29.

“This is not about the Archdiocese of Atlanta. It’s not about opposition to Christ the King church. It’s not about the Catholic church. It’s about enforcing the requirements of the city of Atlanta.”

Residents have appealed to the Board of Zoning Adjustment the decision by city staff members to issue building permits for the project. The board is scheduled to hear the appeal Aug. 14.

The NPU-B committee meeting on July 29 offered a public airing for both

sides. A standing-room-only crowd of more than 50 people filled a meeting room at the Cathedral of St. Philip to listen to debate before members of the neighborhood planning unit that represents the area.

Hilliard argued errors made on plans submitted to city officials led to the erroneous issuance of the building permits for the rectory. “There are too many people here who care about this issue to ignore the fact these errors were made on these plans,” he said.

But lawyer Kathy Zickert, representing the archdiocese, said the permits were proper. “The ultimate issue here is whether a home for six priests requires a special use permit, and it does not,” Zickert said.

Members of the NPU-B board said they believed the debate centered on

whether the rectory qualified as a “home” under city law.

The city allows six unrelated people to live together in a residential area, they said.

So if the rectory is legally a home, it would be permitted. But neighbors argued it was not a home, but rather an extension of the church, and so required a special permit, committee members said.

Representatives of the archdiocese said the building would be the priests’ home.

“The rectory will be a home for the priests,” Monsignor Francis McNamee, the rector of the Cathedral of Christ the King, told board members. “It will not be an extension for the work of the cathedral.

It is our home.”

On Aug. 5, the full board of NPU-B voted 22-1 to send comments to the appeals board, saying the NPU board be-

lieved the rectory qualified as a home.

“The Zoning Committee noted and is sensitive to concerns voiced by neighbors who attended the meeting,” the letter says. “Both the applicant and church agree that six unrelated individuals may occupy a single-family residence. Based on the information presented, the consensus of the Zoning Committee is that the structure would qualify as a single-family residence.”

The committee was quick to say it was not voting either for or against the appeal, but simply was offering a comment.

“The Zoning Committee re-emphasizes that these are comments only, and that NPU-B does not rule on or take a position as to whether this appeal should or should not be granted,” the letter says. “Further factual and legal considerations are directed to the BZA hearing.”

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Common Core: Right or wrong for our schools?

Editors note: The set of national education standards known as Common Core are in place in Georgia schools. But they have faced steady attack from some education critics and in the state Legislature. Reporter Newspapers asked two education activists from our communities – one a supporter of the standards and the other an opponent – to share their thoughts on the Common Core.

Centralization is a bad idea Forget the rhetoric. Forget the posturing. Common Core is a bad idea.

It will not improve academic achievement for Georgia’s students.

It will increase costs.

NANCY It creates another bureaucracy, a standards bureau of sorts, to comJESTER pliment the already unwieldy state and federal education apparatus GUEST COLUMN that has failed to improve the educational lives of Georgia’s children, and failed to be good stewards for Georgia’s taxpayers. The title of General Sullivan’s book, “Hope is not a Method,” pretty much sums it up.

Common Core is only a “set of standards.” Standards, goals, hopes, whatever you want to call them, are not methods that generate improvement in academic achievement.

The daily work of a teacher, the techniques they use, are the method. Our state has spent millions of dollars to implement something that will not improve education. What if our military spent all of its resources developing great battlefield strategy but didn’t properly equip the soldiers? No matter how good the strategy (and I’m not saying Common Core is good, quite the opposite), the results would be abysmal.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the major education legislation passed under President Bush, had standards. In 2014, NCLB said that 100 percent of our nation’s third graders would be proficient readers. That didn’t happen.

Why? Because a standard, a goal, is not a method. Your tax dollars have been wasted on a distraction that delivers no value.

The Georgia Department of Education likes to tout that Georgia was one of six states used as a model for Common Core. That should give us all pause.

Given how poorly Georgia compares in achievement measurements, it is no comfort to learn that the same team that has brought Georgia to such a poor standing is guiding a new national effort to redefine standards.

We also know that centralization, especially in governmental entities, doesn’t produce particularly good results. Common Core is a centralization strategy. It’s effective for increasing bureaucratic jobs. It’s ineffective for improving outcomes.

It is the antithesis of various reform strategies which recognize and tailor education to the individual. Our world is evermore customizable and filled with choices – iPods, Spotify, Amazon, blogs. So, why do educational bureaucrats insist on going in the other direction? If centralization worked, the Soviet Union would still be around. If centralization worked, why did we break up Ma Bell?

The bottom line is that Common Core is yet another bureaucratic creation that won’t do anything to help students and teachers. Yes, it also creates one stop shopping for anyone peddling an agenda in education. Georgians should reject Common Core less out of fear and more out of common sense.

Nancy Jester, a former member of the DeKalb School Board and former candidate for State Superintendent of Education, writes about education issues at blog.nancyjester.com.

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Higher standards challenge our children The Common Core State Standards are now into their third imSTEVE plementation year as doors open on DOLLINGER school houses across the state. Thousands of Georgians clearly see the GUEST COLUMN value they provide. After years of struggling in public education, they believe Georgia is on the right track. They have no desire to turn back now in search of another silver bullet.

The Better Standards for a Better Georgia Coalition of 25plus organizations supports the higher standards. And, yes, they are higher standards built on the previous Georgia standards that had received national praise. They do raise expectations. They challenge our students, who are in fact, responding.

Who are these citizen groups in this coalition? They are not the special, big money, government funded, corporate interests that some would lead you to believe.

They are your neighbors. They are parents who want the best education possible for their children. They are teachers who love their students and want to see each one succeed. They are businessmen and women who have a vested interest in a quality, future workforce. They are our military families answering their nation’s call wherever that takes them.

Let’s consider the experts who must implement these higher standards, and translate them into an effective curriculum written by Georgians for Georgians, our teachers.

A poll of more than 3,000 educators was conducted last year by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE).

Almost 75 percent said they supported the Common Core.

These are the people we trust with our most precious treasures, our children. Listen to them!

Here are some key points to consider as you do your Common Core homework: • Increases classroom expectations • Increases critical thinking skills • Decreases emphasis on rote memorization • Better prepares our students for post secondary education and careers • Decreases the need for remediation as our graduates enter higher education • Allows our educators to maintain control of teaching Georgia’s children.

The Georgia Partnership’s latest Economics of Education report includes this statement that sums up the argument for Common Core: “College- and career-ready standards are a must-do for our state, its economy, and the future of our students. Georgia should not go back to the days when 90 percent of our students were told they were proficient, yet when compared to their peers in other states, only one-quarter of them were on track to be ready for college or embark on a career when they graduated from high school.”

We must stay the course. The Common Core is right for Georgia.

Dr. Steve Dolinger is the president of the non-partisan Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, www.gpee.org. Before joining the partnership in 2002, he served as Fulton County Superintendent of schools for seven years.

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Childhood wish grows to ‘phenomenal’ proportions I’ve always thought of zucchini as a When my son eventually went out friendly vegetable. to water my garden, he discovered an I suppose that’s because I associate it enormous zucchini protruding from bewith my Italian grandmother, who grew neath the elephant-ear-like leaves of the her own zucchini and made vine. He picked it and enmarvelous things with it. thusiastically texted me a She baked, breaded, fried, photo of it, which did not ROBIN JEAN grated, relished and parmecome close to doing justice san-ed it; she turned it into MARIE CONTE to the thing. chocolate cake and breakfast I returned home to find loaves. that single zucchini taking ROBIN’S NEST Since I was old enough up the entire bottom shelf to dream of what shape my of my refrigerator. It was adulthood would take, I dreamed of like a mortar shell, like a green submahaving a garden and planting zucchini. rine, like an Austin Mini Cooper. You My childhood wish was finally granted, could string it and use it as a cello; you in the form of a cleared-out piece of soil could put propellers on it and fly it behind my mailbox, which is about the across the Interstate; you could hollow only spot in my yard that gets enough it out and paddle it down the Chattasun to support produce. hoochee.

I planted tomatoes, basil, parsley, It was truly a remarkable thing, most thyme, and oregano, and of course, a worthy of documentation. I considered friendly little sprout of zucchini, and I mounting the stem on a wooden plaque attempted to beautify the area by frontand hanging it on my wall … because, ing it with an attractive curbside camfor some reason, I took pride in its size, as if I had more to do with its uncommon monstrosity than pure inattentiveness.

I behaved like a fisherman who had finally caught “the big one.”

I took pictures with my zucchini. I got photos of me measuring it against my arm and against my thigh, photos of me bench pressing it and curling it.

Then I dressed up and put on mascara and got some more photos.

I have more photos with the zucchini than with my son at his graduation—probably because the zucchini wasn’t complaining.

But I wanted the enormity of it fully authenticated before I went in for the slaughter. So I took one SPECIAL final photo of it with a measuring tape (it measured 16” long with a Robin shows off her 16” x 4” 4”diameter, FYI) and commenced home grown zucchini. with the cooking. ouflage of flowering annuals and perenI put it in a colander in my sink and nials. started washing it with the vegetable The tomatoes got pretty tall and unscrub brush, and I felt like I was bathruly. But the zucchini … well the zucing a small child. chini took me by surprise. What startI cut it in half, and then in half again, ed as an innocent, green sprig about the and again and again, until it was of edsize of my pinky finger soon turned my ible portions. I only had room in my mailbox garden into The Little Shop skillet for half of it—which turned out of Horrors. The thick squash vines and to be roughly equal to eight normalmassive green leaves stretched across the ly formed zucchini. I sautéed it with an vincas in front, effectively strangling the also massive Vidalia onion, tomatoes, flowers and threatening to do the same basil, parsley, oregano, and salt and pepto my mailman. per, and served it up with a mess of pasOther people have attack dogs; I have ta, and it made a fine dinner. I gave the an attack plant. other half to my mother.

So I learned that zucchini can be So this year will forever be known in quite intimidating. And I learned that, my house as the summer of my zucchiunlike most living things, zucchini ni. thrives when neglected.

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burning of books. It was very intimidating for a young child.”

He couldn’t play with other kids in the streets, he recalls. “Every kid was wearing a Nazi uniform, so if you were not wearing a uniform, you felt very alone,” he said. “We were not allowed to go into parks, swimming pools.”

Birnbrey’s father owned a dry goods store and managed a commissary for a local union. Birnbrey says his father died on Kristallnacht, the “night of broken glass” in 1938, when Jewish businesses, homes, hospitals and temples were destroyed by the Nazis and their supporters. “He was in a local prison,” Birnbrey

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“He died from a beating.”

He never found out what happened to his mother.

Birnbrey came to America as AROUND part of a huTOWN manitarian rescue mission JOE EARLE organized to remove Jewish children from Nazi Germany and resettle them in safer countries.

In England, the effort was known as Kindertransport, or “children’s transport,” and resulted in more than 10,000 children finding new homes. In the United States, the program was much smaller. About 1,100 children were brought to America in an effort now often called “One Thousand Children.”

“I was one of the lucky people picked,” Birnbrey said. He was sponsored by a Jewish women’s group in Birmingham. He and two other children were put on a ship and taken to New York. He eventually was placed in a foster home in Atlanta.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 until 1945, he said. He was shipped back to Europe to fight against the Nazis. He “had a million jobs in the Army,” at one point helping interrogate German prisoners.

After the war, he returned to Atlanta and started an accounting firm. “I didn’t have a job, so I started my own,” he said.

Has he retired? “Yes and no,” he said during a recent chat in his Brookhaven home. At age 90, he still goes into the office for a few hours a day, he said.

He also gives talks several times a month at the Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum in Atlanta. His talks make the Holocaust seem real to the students who come to the museum. “It is amazing,” said museum executive director Aaron Berger. “These kids are learning about World War II and the Holocaust in the classroom, and then they meet someone who lived through it. They really are in awe of him.”

After the war, Birnbrey didn’t want to return to Germany. “I was committed not to go back. I didn’t want anything to do with the bastards,” he said.

But years later, someone told him where his parents were buried. He has returned to pay his respects. On one trip, about five years ago, he was accompanied by three of his four children.

They asked to see where their grandfather had died.

It proved to be too much.

“When we went into the torture chamber, I suffered a heart attack,” Birnbrey said. “The ambulance took me to the hospital I was born in.”

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When a friend of Tom Purcell’s was diraisers,” said Purcell. agnosed with breast cancer in 2006, she Erin Long, a member of the Turningquickly turned to TurningPoint, a breast Point staff involved in the tournament, cancer rehabilitation clinic that provides said the proceeds “benefit [TurningPoint’s] therapy for women battling the disease. financial assistance program for uninsured “My wife and I spent hundreds of hours and underinsured women, as well as the driving our friend to various complimentary education and doctor’s appointments, but exercise programs.”

TurningPoint stood out,” The programs offer relief Purcell said. “The emotionand support to women at all al and physical support prostages of breast cancer. Turnvided was great, and the imingPoint also affects healthcare pact it had was remarkable.” providers and the community.

TurningPoint Breast “The large outreach and educaCancer Rehabilitation was tion program aims to increase founded in 2003. The nonawareness about breast canprofit’s mission is to “imcer survivorship issues, and the prove quality of life for role of physical and emotional women with breast cancer Tom Purcell rehabilitation during and after by providing, promoting treatment,” Binkley said. and advocating specialized and evidenceIn this sense, Tourney for TurningPoint based rehabilitation,” said Jill Binkley, the is just as much an education event as it is executive director. a fundraising one. It brings TurningPoint’s The Sandy Springs clinic offers servicmission to a different crowd. es such as physical therapy, exercise, mas“Most men are not impacted until their sage therapy, counseling, nutritional counwife, mother or daughter is diagnosed,” seling and education programs. It aims to Purcell said. “The tournament opens up meet the unrecognized and often unfulthe message to people who might not be filled needs of women with breast cancer. affected otherwise.”

But this wide array of services was not This year brings the fourth annuall that appealed to Purcell. “The staff’s al tournament. The event begins at the passion blew me away,” he said.

Dunwoody Country Club Aug. 24 with a When his friend passed away after a “Swing Fling” dinner and auction, which four-year struggle, PurLong said about 200 cell’s involvement with people usually attend.

Do you know an organization or TurningPoint didn’t The dinner is followed individual making a difference end. He has supportby the golf outing on in our community? Email ed the center financialAug. 25 for about 120 editor@reporternewspapers.net ly and volunteered exgolfers, Long said. tensively. And about Purcell and his three years ago, there came an opportunity company, Ashford Advisors, have been that especially spoke to him. heavily involved every year as the present“There was a wish to expand the mesing sponsor of Tourney for TurningPoint. sage of TurningPoint,” Purcell said. “Along “He is a dedicated volunteer, and leverages with my company [Ashford Advisors], we his commitment by engaging others in the set up ‘Tourney for TurningPoint.’” work that we do,” Binkley said.

Tourney for TurningPoint is a golf tourPurcell remains grateful for Turningnament benefitting the 300-plus women Point. “TurningPoint was everything for TurningPoint serves each year. “The tourmy friend,” he said. “I couldn’t be more nament is one of two major annual fundproud to be involved.”

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Monday, Aug. 11, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Babies, toddlers and preschoolers can come to a fun, summer time session filled with stories, songs, fingerplays and puppets. Free. All are welcome. Babies ages 3-11 months at 10:15 a.m.; toddlers ages 1-2 years, 11 a.m.; preschoolers ages 3-5 at 11:45 a.m.

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Butterfly Festival Saturday, Aug. 16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Butterfly Festival returns to Dunwoody Park! Check out two tents filled with hundreds of butterflies. Activities include a butterfly release, birds of prey show, live animal encounters, games, educational booths, crafts, music, food and drinks. Early member preview, 9 a.m.; general admission, 10 a.m. Rain or shine event. Tickets, $10 for adults, $5 for kids ages 4-12, free for children 3 and under.

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Movies by Moonlight Friday, Aug, 22, 6-10 p.m. Sandy Springs “Movies by Moonlight,” now in its 10th year, shows “Frozen,” about a princess who sets off on a journey alongside an iceman, his pet reindeer, and a hapless snowman to find her estranged sister, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.

Free. Outdoors. The community is welcome to attend. Food for sale. Kids’ activities. Sandy Springs United Methodist Church, 86 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. For further details, visit: www.leadershipsandysprings.org. Call 404256-9091 in case of inclement weather.

“Meet the Past” Festival Saturday, Aug. 23, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The Atlanta History Center invites you to experience the best of “Meet the Past” offerings through characters that bring to life the stories of people from Atlanta and Georgia. Explore the museum, the Smith Family Farm, and Swan Coach House, and enjoy activities and discussions with historical interpreters. Free for AHC members; included in general admission for non-members. 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-814-4000 or go to: www.atlantahistorycenter.com for more.

Alicia Etchison Thursday, Aug. 14, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Back by popular demand, Alicia Etchison performs, which includes original music compositions for children of all ages. Her acoustic fingerstyle guitar songs have been described as “storysongs as peaceful and invigorating as sunset on the beach.” Free. Open to the public. Suggested audiences: Elementary, preschool, toddler and infant. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Avenue, NE, Atlanta, 30305.

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Volunteers Needed Saturday, Aug. 16, 9-11 a.m. Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital invites those interested in volunteering in patient/family-focused areas of the hospital to attend a Volunteer Open House. Participants will learn about the role of the hospital’s volunteers, and also tour the ICU and surgical areas. Space is limited to the first 25 registrants. Register by calling 678-843-7292. 5665 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., Atlanta, 30342.

Chai Drive Sunday, Aug. 24, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Plan for your family’s healthy future, or be a bone marrow match for someone. JScreen and Gift of Life partner to offer two tests. Screen for 19 Jewish diseases or save a life. No blood draws for either test. $99 for JScreen; do not eat or drink 30 minutes beforehand. No need to RSVP or pre-register for bone marrow test.

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Swing Fling Sunday, Aug. 24, 6 p.m. Make plans to attend TurningPoint’s fourth annual event at the Dunwoody County Club. The two-day affair includes dinner and an auction, and a golf outing at the club on Aug. 25. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit, which provides rehabilitation for women with breast cancer, including physical therapy, massage therapy, counseling and nutritional counseling. Dinner at 6 p.m. Aug. 24; shotgun golf tournament begins at 8:30 a.m., Aug. 25. Tickets, $50 for dinner; golf, $300. For a golf foursome, $1,000. Questions?

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Monday, Aug. 11, 6:30-7:45 p.m. How can you reach your financial goals and dreams? Learn about the three different savings accounts you need; ways to reduce debt; retirement savings strategies; how life insurance really works; and the high cost of waiting to save... and more. Free. Suitable for college, adult and elder audiences. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Email: comments@fultoncountyga.gov or call 404303-6130 for details.

Tuesday, Aug. 19, 6-8 p.m. Many of us think meditation is about sitting in the lotus position, drifting into the cosmos! Come learn realistic, practical, meditation techniques that help with stress and pain. You will leave with a beginning practice that works for you. No experience necessary. Free. RSVP to 404-843-1880. For members of the Cancer Support Community. 5775 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., Building C, Suite 225, Atlanta, 30342. Visit: www. cscatlanta.org for additional details.

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Wednesday, Aug. 13, 5:30 p.m. Clark Howard presents, "What Cyber Criminals Want from You and How You Can Stop Them." Sponsored by The Jewish Educational Loan Fund. Reception begins at 5:30; program at 6:15 p.m. $54 per person; $36/person age 35 and under. Maggiano's Buckhead, 3368 Peachtree Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30326. Purchase tickets at: www.jelf.org/clarkhoward. For additional information, call 770-396-3080.

Cancer Workshop Wednesday, Aug. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Join others for this free workshop for cancer patients and their caregivers. Topics include: information on cancer treatments, how to prevent and manage common side effects, how to develop an action plan, and tips to improve the partnership with your health care team. For members of the Cancer Support Community. Free. Dinner provided. RSVP to 404-8431880. 5775 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., Building C, Suite 225, Atlanta, 30342. To learn more, go to: www.cscatlanta.org.

Civil War Thursday, Aug. 14, 7 p.m. Georgia’s Civil War history is replete with historic firsts, secret spies and hidden histories. Learn about lesser known aspects of the war with Historian John Inscoe, as he presents, “Georgia's Unknown Civil War History." Free and open to the community. Suitable for all ages. Heritage Sandy Springs, Heritage Hall, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Go to: www.heritagesandysprings.org or call 404-851-9111 for further information.

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Math Skills Thursday, Aug. 21, 4-5 p.m. To prepare for the new school year, rising 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th graders can take a free math skills assessment to test strengths and weaknesses. Each assessment lasts approximately 25 minutes. Seats limited to the first eight students.

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Registration required and started July 7. Parents receive an assessment analysis. Call Katori Education Co., Monday-Thursday at 678-880-7094 to sign up or with questions. Northside Branch Library, 3295 Northside Parkway, NW, Atlanta, 30327.

Cesarean Birth Prep Saturday, Aug. 23, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Have you been told to anticipate a cesarean birth? Discuss what to expect before, during and after surgery, as well as what happens if you go into labor prior to your C/section date. Learn tips for recovering at home while caring for yourself, your new baby and family. $56 per couple. Northside Hospital Atlanta, Interchange Building, Suite 400, Classroom 430B, 5780 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30342. Go to: http://northside.com or call 404845-5555 to register or to learn more.

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I am not Italian nor was I raised in an ItalART HUCKABEE ian household. GrowFried calamari was the perfect starter for a ing up, my exposure meal at Alfredo’s on Cheshire Bridge Road. to Italian cuisine was a thin meat sauce made from a packet of McCormick’s spaghetti do’s does take reservations and easily acsauce mix served over spaghetti. My facommodated our party of nine, out for ther despised the dish, and now I know a special birthday party. why.

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The breast of chicken Cacciatore was pure comfort food. It was what my Italian grandmother would make if I had an Italian grandmother. The chicken was surprisingly juicy to be just breast meat, and the Sunday gravy was rich with plum tomatoes, mushrooms, red peppers, onions and herbs.

The half portion of eggplant Parmigiana hung off the plate. The delicately fried vegetable was not swimming in sauce and cheese, but rather had the right balance of ingredients as to highlight the delicate, yet hearty, dish.

The breast of chicken al pesto was excellent, sautéed in pounded basil, pine nuts and butter, and served in a creamy garlic sauce.

The Snapper Casalinga was a large portion of fresh fish. It was broiled and served with a tart lemon butter and white wine sauce that slightly overpowered the fish. The accompanying sautéed spinach was garlicky with a hint of smokiness.

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An assortment of Italian desserts was served in honor of the “birthday boy,” and the waiters and several adjoining tables serenaded with “Happy Birthday.” The desserts were all authentic, with the cannoli being the star.

Alfredo’s serves good Italian food, but it excels at providing exceptional service, a welcoming atmosphere, and those feelings of warmth and comfort that are at the heart of what Italian really means.

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Team entry for the third annual Brookhaven Chili Cook Off is now open at www.BroohavenChiliCookOff.com. The event will be held Oct. 11. The neighborhood festival will feature over 60 local restaurant and amateur teams competing for bragging rights, plaques, medals, cash and prizes.

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New year brings new leaders to local schools he opening of a new school year means not only the arrival of new students and teachers, but new leadership at some schools. They may be called principals or headmasters or heads of school, but the job is more or less the same: take charge and make the school operate smoothly and efficiently. Here are new leaders taking over schools in Reporter Newspapers communities this year.

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North Atlanta High Principal Curtis Douglass was the assistant principal at North Atlanta High School. He worked in the Gwinnett County Public School System for seven years.

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Head of Secondary School Sandy MacKenzie is a U.K. citizen from Scotland. He comes to AIS as the Head of the Secondary School from Shanghai, where he was the Head of the Senior School at Dulwich College.

Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School Headmaster Paul Barton comes to Holy Innocents’ with 14 years of experience as Head of School, most recently with the Avery Coonley School near Chicago. He has additionally served as a teacher, coach, residential dean, admissions associate and senior administrator at a range of independent and public schools from the Pre-K to 12th grade levels.

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New leaders at Buckhead schools this year CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cials say is in store at Atlanta public cipal at Johns Creek High School in schools this year: Fulton County, is filling the top spot • 50,000 students are expected to at Sutton Middle; and Kara Stimpson enroll. is taking over at Morris Brandon Ele• Twenty-two new principals have mentary. been hired.

Dr. Meria Carstarphan takes over • The Atlanta Classical Academy in as superintendent, in the midst of Buckhead opens as a new APS charter the school system school, offering kindealing with fallout dergarten through from the cheating eighth-grade classes. scandal.

• While E. Rivers “I believe Me“I believe Meria Elementary students ria Carstarphen is the and staff will remain Carstarphen is the right right person at the for now at their temright time,” said Dis- person at the right time.” porary site, the fortrict 8 School Board mer Sutton Middle member Cynthia BrisSchool facility, con– CYNTHIA BRISCOE BROWN coe Brown at a recent struction of the new DISTRICT 8 SCHOOL BOARD Buckhead Council of E. Rivers school will MEMBER Neighborhoods meetbe completed in Deing. “We need her pascember. sion, confidence and • North Atlanabilities.” ta High School has Carstarphen has started the year a new bell time: 8:45 a.m. All other with a focus on both students and high schools start at 8:30. staff. In advance of the school system’s • APS is launching the Gifted High first day on Aug. 4, she launched an School Redesign Program, in which aggressive “Day One: Be There” camnewly designed gifted models will inpaign aimed at getting students regisclude mentorship, internship, resource tered and in class on time, citing statisseminars and directed studies. tics showing more than 5,000 students • Students in grades 3 through 12 absent from class on the first day. will have access to secure Microsoft And on July 31 she announced the Outlook email through the APS stufirst pay raise for APS employees in dent portal “My Back Pack.” Students more than five years. can use their email to share digital “Having a great school district notebooks and collaborate with teachstarts with having talented and deders and other students. icated employees, and we are com• APS students can take Advanced mitted to Atlanta Public Schools bePlacement, gifted honors and world coming one of the nation’s leading language classes through the online districts,” Carstarphen said. “I believe Atlanta Virtual Academy. the children of Atlanta deserve this • APS has created an ombudsman type of commitment.” to confidentially address student, parHere’s a look at what school offient and community issues.

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ASSAULT  2000 block of Peachtree Road, NE – An aggravated assault was reported on July 18. A man said he was on the elevator and two men were talking in a foreign language. They looked at him and punched him in the face. He began fighting with the two, and a third man came and began shooting and stole $130.  1800 block of Piedmont Avenue, NE – An aggravated assault was reported on July 19.

A man started an argument with the victim while inside the location. When the argument escalated, the suspect took out a knife and repeatedly slashed at the victim’s torso. The victim used “defensive tactics” to deflect the attempt, which caused him to receive minor cuts to his left index finger and left palm.

Units responding to the call were able to stop the suspect.  2900 block of Piedmont Road – An aggravated assault was reported on July 21. A woman and a man were outside walking their dog when the man went to ensure his vehicle was secured. When the man approached the vehicle, he noticed the door was slightly ajar; he closed it and heard something behind him. When he turned around, he saw a man standing behind him near the dumpster. The man encountered the wom-

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an and their dog as he was being chased by the suspects. The dog began barking at the suspects, and was shot in the head. The suspects continued to chase and shoot at the woman and man. It was at that point the woman realized she had been shot. The occupants inside a hotel room overheard the shots, looked out the window, and saw the woman and man being chased by the two suspects and opened the door.

As the two entered the threshold of the door, the occupants of the room slammed the door, catching the suspect’s arm; he continued to shoot into the room.

 2400 block of Coronet Way NW – An aggravated assault was reported on July 23.

A woman said her sister struck her in the head with a shoe when she became upset she couldn’t find any Xanax to purchase at the location. The victim reports blacking out during the incident. The suspect fled in a white minivan.

ROBBERY  1400 block of Defoors Drive, NW – A pedestrian robbery was reported on July 14. A man approached a woman as she was walking to her condo unit, pointed a handgun at her and demanded her purse, keys and jewelry, before driving away with her vehicle.

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At left, Atlanta police Maj. Van Hobbs, left, accompanied Atlanta police investigator Drew Bahry, as Bahry was honored for his part in catching a burglar accused of stealing silver.

Sgt. Randolph Council of the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department, right, was honored for his work with the department.

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pointed the handgun and said, “I want all the money out of the register.” The clerk complied, and gave him $115. Upon receiving the money, the robber left the store. Police canvassed the area but did not locate him.  200 block of Pharr Road, NE – A pedestrian robbery was reported on July 22. Suspect #1 exited the front right passenger side of a dark-colored BMW 5-series with an older model handgun as a woman entered a driveway. The suspect said,”Give me everything and don’t move.” The woman began running toward an adjacent business yelling, “He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun.” Suspect #1 took the male victim’s briefcase that contained a laptop. Another suspect exited the driver’s seat of the vehicle and emptied the man’s pockets, taking a cellphone, wallet and approx $40. The suspects re-entered

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