AUGUST 18 - 31, 2017 • VOL. 11— NO. 17
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► High school football team tackles community needs PAGE 8 ► Local librarians recommend autumn reads PAGE 14 BY EVELYN ANDREWS
Group pushes for crosswalk fixes after pedestrian death
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Baraka Sentmore died after being hit by car while standing on a pedestrian island at the intersection of Piedmont Road and Morosgo Drive on July 11. She left behind four children. One month later, Atlanta advocacy group Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety, or PEDS, held a rally to honor her and push for pedestrian safety improvements in the Buckhead intersection and across the city. “Those children are going to grow up in completely different lives,” Sally Flocks, the founder and CEO of PEDS said at the Aug. 11 rally. “We need to recognize it’s real people being killed.” Sentmore was killed after being hit by a car after it collided with another See GROUP on page 18 Two volunteers attach flowers to a pole at the intersection of Piedmont Road and Morosgo Drive on Aug. 11 in honor of Baraka Sentmore, a pedestrian killed at that intersection a month earlier. EVELYN ANDREWS
STANDOUT STUDENT Creating 3-D printed prosthetic arms
It’s chicken feed up here in Buckhead to cut down a tree. It should be an economic hardship to cut down a tree.
OUT & ABOUT Walking, wagging for a cause
BY JOHN RUCH AND EVELYN ANDREWS johnruch@reporternewspapers.net After nine months of work, the master plan for Buckhead’s commercial core has been released. It proposes “Six Big Ideas”: projects and studies that especially target the neighborhood’s problems with traffic
GORDON CERTAIN
President of the North Buckhead Civic Association
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Master plan sets new course for Buckhead’s commercial core
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