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Hocofeng “Fish” Yu and daughter Aubrey, 7 months, enjoy a community concert featuring local singer and songwriter Jordan Grassi at the Brookhaven United Methodist Church on Aug. 2.

City makes case for charter school

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Report: DeKalb schools making progress

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Brookhaven’s mayor and City Council say they are ready to take on the added duty of acting as a governing board for a new charter school in the city, and they’ve also received support from the DeKalb County school superintendent.

“We’re all passionate about education,” Mayor J. Max Davis told the State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia on Aug. 1. “Our job is to get this school started, make sure it runs well, and that we have the best people possible to run it.”

Davis and members of Brookhaven City Council went before the

The DeKalb County School District appears to be on the way to mending the problems that resulted in its being placed on academic probaNew leaders ready tion in 2012 by the agency that accredfor school year, its the district. pages 16-17.

AdvancEd, the parent of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, or SACS, issued a report citing “material progress” the school district had made in confronting challenges and completing required actions.

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Mayor J. Max Davis addressed a crowd of more than 100 during his first “State of the City” speech on July 31.

Mayor: We have kept our campaign promises

BY ANN MARIE QUILL

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On the second anniversary of the vote to create the city of Brookhaven, Mayor J. Max Davis raised a question that had been debated before and after that election: “How can I make sure that Brookhaven’s government doesn’t become the problem?”

His answer: Brookhaven’s city government, he says, provides better roads, better police protection, better parks and better planning than existed before the city’s creation.

In Davis’ first “State of the City” address, delivered to more than 100 people July 31 at the Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter on Chamblee Dunwoody Road, the mayor proudly said the city would celebrate two years of operation in about six months.

Davis served as president of Brookhaven Yes, a group that advocated for the creation of the city, before his election as mayor. He pointed to statements made

by Brookhaven Yes and during his mayoral campaign as evidence city officials have kept their promises.

• “Property taxes will be capped, and you’ll be paying the same or less than you were to the county.” He said the millage rate is 2.79, under the cap. “Whether it’s a $300,000 home or a million-dollar home, our homeowners will be paying between $50 and $220 less in property taxes, respectfully,” he said.

• “Brookhaven will have a $1 million surplus in year one.” He said that money was put aside into a reserve fund, and the city should be able to more than double that amount this year.

• “The police force would have at least eight to nine beat patrols at all times, doubling or tripling DeKalb’s coverage.”

He said the Brookhaven Police Depart-

ment actually has at least eight to 10 patrols at all times and sometimes as many as 12. “I can’t drive through Brookhaven without seeing a patrol car,” he said.

• “Brookhaven will mean better parks.” He said the city is spending six times more on parks than DeKalb.

• “Brookhaven will mean better roads.” He said city crews are working right now to pave 16 roads in the city.

The mayor said permit wait times have dropped since the city incorporated, down from two months to 10 days, and that goal is part of making sure Brookhaven isn’t part of the problem. “Good law doesn’t have to be overly complex,” said Davis, explaining that the city is trying to simplify and reduce the size of its codes.

He also pointed out the Comprehensive Plan, Buford Highway Improvement Plan, Transportation Plan and Parks and Recreation Plan that the city is working on will give “predictability” to residents so they can know what is expected of the city.

More goals for Brookhaven, he said, are community-building events like the food truck roundups and SoccerFest, an event that brought thousands of soccer fans to Brookhaven Park to watch broadcasts of the World Cup soccer tournament.

He said the city soon will begin working on traffic relief in the Ashford Dunwoody-Johnson Ferry corridor.

State Rep. Mike Jacobs, who sponsored the bill allowing Brookhaven’s incorporation to the Georgia Legislature, introduced Davis at the event. He said the job of mayor of Brookhaven requires “a unique person with a unique personality and temperament.”

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The Brookhaven Arts Festival has been canceled for this year, according to a post on the event’s Facebook page.

“With a heavy heart, the Brookhaven Arts Alliance makes the announcement that we will be unable to host the 2014 Brookhaven Arts Festival,” the post said.

“Please no calls or emails. We will come back large and in charge next go-round. All appropriate fees will be refunded.”

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Brookhaven City Council is scheduled to vote on the Buford Highway and Parks and Recreation Master plan at its Aug. 12 meeting.

The same night, a public hearing will be held on the Comprehensive Plan 2034, and a presentation will be made on the Comprehensive Transportation Plan, which is schedB RI E F S uled to be voted on Aug. 26.

The comprehensive plan is scheduled to be voted on by the council in November, following a regional review. It outlines the city’s vision for the next 20 years, with a focus on walkability, transit use and community hubs. It divides the city in 13 character areas, outlining a vision statement, appropriate land uses and implementation plans for each one.

The comprehensive plan serves as an umbrella for the Buford Highway, parks and transportations plans.

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COMMUNITY Brookhaven sets qualifying dates for council seat Candidates interested in qualifying for the District 2 council seat that became open April 22 after councilman Jim Eyre resigned the post can qualify at Brookhaven City Hall, 4362 Peachtree Road, this month. Qualifying for the Nov. 4 special election will be held Tuesday, Aug. 19, Wednesday, Aug. 20, and Thursday, Aug. 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The qualifying fee is $360, and candidates must meet qualifications set forth in Brookhaven’s charter and code, as well as state and constitutional laws. If no candidate receives a majority of votes in November, a run-off will be held Dec. 2.

At least two candidates have announced their intention to run for the seat: Tim Nama, chairman of Brookhaven’s Board of Zoning Appeals; and Ashford Park residdent John Park.

Redevelopment powers to go before Brookhaven voters The Brookhaven City Council on July 29 approved a resolution putting “redevelopment powers” for the city in the hands of the voters in November.

The powers, if approved by voters, would give the city the authority to use economic development tools such as community improvement districts, bonds and tax allocation districts, which city officials say is needed to revitalize the Buford Highway corridor.

According to City Manager Marie Garrett, Rep. Mike Jacobs approached the city to see if it wanted redevelopment powers, and then a bill was approved by the General Assembly, allowing the measure to go before Brookhaven voters.

Painting of Murphy Candler ballpark to be auctioned An oil painting by Georgia artist Steve Penley is being auctioned on Ebay, with proceeds benefitting Murphey Candler Little League’ 2014 capital campaign. The campaign has a goal of raising $100,000 for improvements to the ballpark.

The 3-by-5-foot painting features a view of Major’s Field and through Aug. 10. The openSPECIAL ing bid is $6,000, The Murphey Candler Park painting up for auction. and its estimated value is $12,500. Limited edition, framed, signed and numbered prints of the painting are also available as gifts to “Hall of Fame” level donors to the campaign.

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COMMENTARY Tree ordinance: Progress, but we’re not there yet To the editor: Yes, progress (we think).

The July 29 public hearing on the proposed city tree ordinance presented some interesting developments. Right off the bat, after testimony from the city attorney who stated that the ordinance still needed some legal work, the decision was made to defer the vote until at least the next City Council meeting, which resulted in one collective sigh of relief.

Additionally, as a result of previously emailed questions, the Brookhaven arborist, Kay Evanovich, presented four suggestions for change, which, if adopted, will move the proposed ordinance

in a more positive direction, preserving Aug. 26 meeting, with that all the emails simLE T T E R T O more trees and making developers more the possibility of anothply urging them to stop accountable. er public hearing in beclear cutting (which Kay T HE E DIT OR And thanks to the outstanding testitween. claims that by her definiE-mail letters to mony of 15 individuals, the City CounRegardless of whethtion is not being done) editor@reporternewspapers.net cil knows we are serious about holding er one is scheduled, the are not helpful, and she them accountable, and two suggestions public will be able to encouraged citizens to made during the hearing regarding the make comment at the continue to suggest some alternative complinext two meetings, real solutions and modifications. We ance provision are hopefully further enurge you to email your City Council now being carefully couraging the City member (if you have one) and the mayconsidered.

Council members to “We’re not there yet, or.

We’re not there do the right thing.

Once again, thank you all for your and as of yet, there has yet, and as of yet, We urge everyone passion and interest in protecting our not been a vote on any there has not been to attend the City beautiful and valuable forest canopy. of the suggested modia vote on any of the Council meetings To quote Sharon Brekke, a fications, but we are suggested modificaand speak up on Aug. Brookhaven homeowner for more very encouraged.” tions, but we are very 12 and 26, when the than 40 years, “We want Brookhavencouraged. vote will take place. en to be a model for jurisdictions At the end of the It should be noted throughout the nation with the best – LISSIE STABLMAN session, the City that Councilwomtree ordinance there is.”

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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.

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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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COMMENTARY

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.

And I think that next year, I’ll plant My husband and I went out of town cucumbers. for a week and left the squash in the care of my son, who promptly neglected it, Robin Conte is a writer and mother of and it grew unattended to phenomenal four who lives in Dunwoody. She can be proportions. contacted at robinjm@earthlink.net.

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Besides, he couldn’t stay in Dortmund, his home town in Germany. He wasn’t safe there. It was 1938. The Nazis held full control.

He recounts vividly what it was like being a Jewish boy in a Nazi-controlled community. “Beating on the streets, I’ve seen it all,” he said. “They’d pick an old Jewish man and make him sweep the streets with toothbrushes. That kind of humiliation was common. Then people started disappearing... I witnessed the

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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

said.

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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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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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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.

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“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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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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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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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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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.

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Atlanta Public Schools

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.

He is a Georgia State University graduate and a New York native.

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Morris Brandon Elementary Principal Kara Stimpson has been involved in education for more than 15 years. She joins the Brandon community after serving as assistant principal at Sylvan Hills Middle School.

Previously, she was a middle and high school teacher at both public and private schools in North Carolina and in the Atlanta area. She has also worked in multiple administrative positions, including being a member of Atlanta Public Schools’ Middle School Transformation team.

DeKalb County Public Schools

Dunwoody High Principal Tom McFerrin has long been a member of the Dunwoody High School community. He previously served as assistant principal, worked as a teacher, and was a student at the school before being appointed principal this year. He has also served as a teacher and coach at Peachtree Middle School. McFerrin is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Mercer University.

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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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Syreeta Moseley comes to Pace Academy as the new Head of Lower School. She previously worked at the Atlanta Speech School for 16 years, and most recently held the position of curriculum specialist for the school’s Anne & Jim Kenan Preschool. She has also served as a third-grade teacher.

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“I gained very much respect for manga writers during the process,” Elena said. “It helped me appreciate all the hard work that goes into it.”

For her senior project at The Lovett School, Elena decided to design, write and illustrate her own manga, a Japanese style of graphic novel. “I always loved Japanese video games as a kid,” she said, “especially Pokémon.” When asked how she first became interested in manga, Elena recalled her freshman year of high school. “I never really like reading,” she said. “But when a friend introduced me to anime and manga, I fell in love. There were so many different kinds of it that I was never bored with reading it.”

Her project centers around two talented twins living in an alternate society that categorizes people based on their abilities. “The story is about the twins coming to terms with the life that they have,” Elena said. She says she found inspiration for the story in her day-to-day life, and used traits picked up from her friends to create the characters in Renewal. In addition, she was influenced by various anime and manga creators, especially Hayao Miyazaki, a famous Japanese director.

During the 2013-2014 school year, Elena wrote and illustrated the first two chapters of “Renewal” with the goal of finishing it during the summer.

In addition to reading, watching and creating anime and manga, Elena participated in several clubs and activities at Lovett, including the business club and the filmmakers club. She also participated in Student Technology Leadership, which worked to set up websites and of-

fer technology support to students. Additionally, Elena engaged in the technical theater program, which includes light design, set construction and stage crew work for Lovett’s drama productions.

“Dedication is a word best associated with Elena. She was dedicated to our technical theater program, dedicated to her schoolwork, dedicated to her friends and mostly, dedicated to being her true self,” said Susan McCluskey, Elena’s technical theater director. “She is an incredibly gifted and kind young lady who has an unquenchable desire to learn and try new things.”

This summer, Elena is visiting England, France and the Netherlands. She also planned to work as an intern at United Sciences, a company that funds research for and offers support to budding inventors.

What’s Next: In the fall, Elena will attend Oberlin College. She wants to study science, but is unsure which branch suits her best.

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Report: DeKalb schools making material progress CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

“We are encouraged that AdvancEd has taken note of the progress we’ve made in stabilizing the system and redirecting our focus on the growth and achievement of our 100,000 students,” said Michael Thurmond, superintendent of the school district, in a statement. “We will continue to build on our momentum, because there is much more work that needs to be done.”

The district was put on probation due to a SACS investigation that found mismanagement of money, abuse of power and unethical hiring practices. The district was told to address 14 actions to improve is accreditation status. According to the AdvancEd report, nine have been completed. The district was taken off probation in January.

The July report noted that school board meetings have improved focus.

It also noted fiscal progress the system has made. “As a result of sounder financial management, realistic budget forecasting and more rigid cost controls,” a $14 million deficit in 2012 turned into a $10.8 million surplus a year later.

Challenges the board still faces include, “the transition to a new board and the search for a new superintendent.

In the past, these challenges have been wrought with conflict and confusion. It is imperative that the Board of Educa-

tion and district leadership ensure the school system and community are prepared to address these known challenges in a professional and coherent manner.”

SACS says the board still has to complete the following five actions, which it notes are “in progress”: 1. Devise and implement a written, comprehensive plan for unifying the board so that the focus can become serving the needs of the children.

2. Establish and implement policies and procedures that ensure separation of duties of the governing board and that of the administration, including eliminating board working committees which result in board members assuming administrative functions that should be the responsibility of appropriate staff.

3. Develop systematic and systemic processes to ensure the continued implementation and sustainability of the continuous improvement efforts of the board in establishing and sustaining the board as a highly effective governing body.

4. Develop and implement plans, policies and processes to monitor, evaluate and sustain the school system’s continuous improvement efforts.

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commission on Aug. 1 to answer questions about their proposal to start the new charter school, to be called the Brookhaven Innovation Academy.

Days earlier, DeKalb Schools Superintendent Michael Thurmond wrote to the commission in support of the school.

“Overall, the district supports the inaugural operation of this progressive statewide charter school in DeKalb County,” his letter reads, describing the school’s proposal to teach computer language coding to students in kindergarten through 12th grade as “impressive and admirable.”

The DeKalb school board and the state commission, still would have to approve the school. The letter did raise some concerns, such as the fact that the school would be located in the same region as Cross Keys High School, which could impact that school’s “delicate demographic make-up, test data and graduation rate.”

But council members maintained that the school, which would give priority to Brookhaven applicants followed by DeKalb students, would benefit not only Brookhaven, but the county as a whole.

“All of the public schools in the city of Brookhaven are over 100 percent capacity,” Mattison said, adding later, “Michael Thurmond and the DeKalb CounBK

ty School System can’t build schools fast enough.”

During the hearing, a lot of the commissioners’ questions to city councillors centered around council members’ ability to operate both a city and a school.

Council members said the key would be finding the right people to run the school’s day-to-day operations. “Our experience as City Councilmen and women lends a great deal of experience to what we’re charged to do as members of the governing board of Brookhaven Innovation Academy,” Councilman Bates Mattison said.

Commissioner Gregg Stevens said that the school’s petition would be approved or denied in August or September. He said the panel will provide feedback to the commission staff which will recommend approval or denial to the full commission, or could request more information or clarification.

If approved, the school will open in August 2015 with 420 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, city officials said.

The plan is to add a grade each year until the school reaches 12th grade, they said.

Eventually, the school would include about 1,300 students on campus, and hundreds more taking courses online, said Glenn Delk, a consultant on the proposal.

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R O BBERY  3100 block of Buford Highway – A robbery in the street using a gun was reported on July 18.  3400 block of Clairmont Road – A robbery in the street using a weapon was reported on July 19.

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 3200 block of Buford Highway – A burglary to a non-residence, using forced entry, was reported on July 28.  1600 block of W. Nancy Creek Drive – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on July 28.  4200 block of Peachtree Road – A burglary to a non-residence, using forced entry, was reported on July 29.

A U TO T H E F T  2900 block of Buford Highway – Theft of an auto was reported on July 18.  1900 block of Woodsdale Road – Theft of an auto was reported on July 21.  2700 block of Grove Street – Entering an auto was reported on July 22.

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BUR G LARY  1500 block of Dresden Drive – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on July 21.  2300 block of Poplar Springs Drive – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on July 21.  1700 block of Harts Mill Road – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on July 22.  3500 block of Buford Highway – A bur-

 2700 block of S. Bamby Lane – Theft of an auto was reported on July 31.

THEFT/LARCENY  1400 block of Canoochee Drive – A larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on July 18.

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The Brookhaven City Council on my street.”

July 29 voted to delay changes to its Resident Laurenthia Mesh brought tree ordinance after city attorney Tom to the meeting 15 posters she says Currie said staff needed more time to show examples of clear-cutting in complete a legal review of the new Brookhaven, including a picture of a code.

2-acre lot on Mabry Road where 200 The council had first decided on trees were cut. “If you pass this law, it July 22 to defer proposed changes to proves Brookhaven is not for the citits tree ordinance to give staff memizens, but for the developers,” Mesh bers a chance to tweak it a bit before it said. was approved, with the intent of keepCouncilman Joe Gebbia moved to ing the city’s tree regulations a work in defer the vote until Aug. 26 and sugprogress. gested more public hearings. “Obvi“It’s about finding the right balously, this is a work in progress,” he ance, being constitutional and legal, said. “By then we should be pretty and making sure we respect properclose to what we should be doing.” ty owners’ rights, but we also want Williams urged residents to keep to give the city and our communiproviding input. “Continue to send us ty the right to regulate trees in such your comments and thoughts. What is a way that it enhances the benefit of most helpful is to give us some specific the public good,” said Councilwomideas. ...What’s not helpful is the blast an and Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Chase emails that say, ‘Stop the clear-cutWilliams. Mayor ting.’ I’m not sure J. Max Davis was what you mean by unable to attend that.” the meeting.

The council “If you pass this law, it Some residents first heard prosay the proposed posed changes to proves Brookhaven is new ordinance is the tree code at a not for the citizens, but too vague and too July 15 work sesfor the developers.” lenient on develsion in which the opers. new regulations Rita Holt, a were present– LAURENTHIA MESH Brookhaven resied with the inBROOKHAVEN RESIDENT dent for almost 20 tent of improving years, said, “My the ordinance the concern . . . is encity adopted from forcement and DeKalb County. penalties. I don’t “I think any orthink they’re strong enough for the dinance can use reworking,” said Kay kinds of cavalier disregard of laws and Evanovich, a city arborist, at the July codes and ordinances I’ve seen just on 22 meeting, adding that there’s “room

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for improvement” in the proposed ordinance. Evanovich, along with arborist Teresa Eldredge, a landscape architect and president of TJ Schell, first presented the modified tree plan to the council during the July 15 work session.

Some changes to the ordinance include encouraging appropriate tree diversity, and maintaining the health of city trees through proper pruning and mulching.

The tree ordinance would take effect when someone wants to remove trees, applies for a land development or building permit, or wants to rebuild more than half a parking lot. It does not apply to tree plantings on public lands, to landscaping projects on private property when no trees are removed, or to remodeling or additions with no tree or land disturbance.

Under the new ordinance, homeowners may remove five trees in a calendar year with a diameter of 10 inches or more, other than specimen trees.

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