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‘We are all APS’ New superintendent Meria Carstarphen’s vision for Atlanta’s schools

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Appeals board backs plans for church rectory

BY PAT FOX Residents of a Buckhead neighborhood are weighing their options after the Atlanta Board of Zoning Adjustments denied their request to rescind permits that allow the Archdiocese of Atlanta to convert a home into a rectory.

The board voted unanimously Thursday to let the permits stand, clearing the way for the Archdiocese to use the house at 136 W. Wesley Drive as a residence for six priests.

Christ the King church plans to spend up to

$1 million to build a 2,978-square-foot, twostory dormitory with four bedroom suites in the location of the current garage on the property. A substantial renovation to the existing single family home will include an additional three bedrooms, an expansive kitchen, two eating areas, a chapel, a large priests’ den, complete with full bar, and a library.

The house has been used for decades as the residence for the archbishop.

Atlanta Public Schools’ new superintendent, Dr. Meria Carstarphen, arrived at last month’s Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods meeting early to introduce herself individually to each member of the audience.

“Hi, I’m Meria,” she said, extending her hand and offering an easy smile to parents and community members.

She’s probably already tired of being called a “breath of fresh air,” but Carstarphen’s combination of friendliness and frankness is a refreshing change of tone and demeanor after years of the old guard that aided in ruining APS’s reputation after the cheating scandal still playing out in court.

As the new and very public face of APS, Carstarphen knows she has a mountain to climb in restoring faith in the school system. Her turnaround of the Austin, Texas, school district – in attendance numbers, innovative programs, graduation rates – has given Carstarphen the surely unwanted moniker of “savior” of APS. But the Selma, Ala. native has been lauded for her track “We wanted to open record in Austin, St. Paul, this school year with Minn. and Washington, more cohesiveness D.C., while also gaining a reputation – if you beand less craziness.” lieve all the press accounts – for her demanding and – MERIA CARSTARPHEN sometimes confrontational style of leadership.

APS SUPERINTENDENT “Austin was gracious enough to understand the challenges facing APS and let me come out early,” Carstarphen said about her arrival this past spring in Atlanta.

Although she didn’t officially begin work until July, Carstarphen was given full access to APS, had meetings with outgoing Interim Superintendent Erroll Davis, attended a retreat with the Atlanta School Board, zeroed in on the district’s most pressing issues, and also started pressing the flesh by showing up at schools and meetings around the city.

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Greg Hill and his wife chanced upon “If something doesn’t happen soon, a flier announcing a community planit’s going to be one of those places no ning session for their north Buckhead one goes because you can’t get anyneighborhood. They decided to check where,” Silver said. it out.

Residents also proposed converting So, one recent Saturday morning, they parking garage roofs to green spaces and joined about two dozen of their neighconvincing the city or neighbors to debors in an elementary school gym/auditovelop new parks in the community. rium to talk about what north Buckhead North Buckhead association presishould be like in 25 years or so. dent Gordon Certain mapped a trian“We’re always complaining about gular parcel he said was cut off by surtraffic,” Hill said. “We don’t like to be rounding homes and could not be complainers. We like to be fixers. This is developed. “It’s just trees,” he said. “Noan opportunity to get involved.” body can get there [by road], but if we Hill seemed impressed by what he could [make it a park], it would be reheard and saw as members of the North ally cool.”

Buckhead Civic Association met with Some residents worried about the pace planners for a three-hour discussion of development in Buckhead. Graham Aug. 16 at Sarah Smith Elementary’s InCarter, for instance, questioned whethtermediate Campus. er his father could afford the increase in “I think it’s a great way to inform the taxes if his home were zoned commercial. community of what’s going on, and also He said planners needed to take care with to get great input from people who are how they propose changes to older neighinvested in the community,” Hill said. borhoods now near high-rises.

“There’s a lot going on, and a small “This area is sensitive,” Carter said, group of people seem to be doing all the and a substantial increase in real estate legwork.” taxes “would say you effectively taxed him Residents gathered around tables for out of his home. That would be counter discussions on Roswell Road, Piedmont to what historically this neighborhood asand Peachtree roads, transportation, sociation has wanted to do, to build into parks and the neighborhood’s residential a study like this the means to stick it to core. Residents debated traffic problems people who have lived there 40 years.” and issues with future development, and Other residents called for measures drew colorful lines on maps as part of a to slow down traffic, improve crosswalks process through which the North Buckand sidewalks, and to protect the comhead association intends to develop a munity’s trees. long-range plan for the community.

“The fact you have neighborhoods so The finished plan will be adopted by green, so forested within a few blocks of the association and then given to Atdowntown densities is remarkable,” selanta city officials for approval by the nior planner Caleb Racicot of planners city, planners said. A draft of the plan and architecture firm TSW told the resis to be presented in a public meeting idents.

Sept. 30 at St. James United Methodist Hill welcomed the proposals he heard, Church. especially about the PATH400 trail now During discussions Aug. 16, residents being built along Ga. 400. He had seen identified places that might be used as signs of the construction, he said, “but future parks, proposed a trail or sidewalk now I know where it goes. system to connect the existing parks and “I’m going to have buy a bike,” he said, the North Buckhead neighborhood to “because I’ve got somewhere to ride it.”

Chastain Park, and outlined areas where future development needed controls.

“I really think this master plan process is going to put Roswell Road on the map,” said Sally Silver, a Buckhead resident who works with Atlanta City Councilman Howard Shook.

“It’s like the red-headed stepchild out here.

Peachtree and Piedmont getting taken care of ... but from JOE EARLE the Buckhead Village Andrea Bennett, standing, considers to the city line, it’s a plans for Roswell Road with Ines hodgepodge.

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Above, Max Armstrong, left, and his brother Sam, demonstrate how their drone operates in the sky over Sandy Springs. The brothers have been flying the drone over their school, with permission, documenting renovations and construction. Below, the drone takes flight.

Buckhead brothers film their school from the sky

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Max Armstrong waited patiently for lights on his drone to start blinking.

Once they did so, the little flying machine could take off into the sky over Sandy Springs.

“It takes a minute because it has to pick up a GPS signal,” his older brother, Sam, explained. “If it flies away and you lose it, you can flip a switch to make it come back to where it takes off from.”

Sam and Max, who live in Buckhead, first started flying the drone in February after their dad, Brent Armstrong, bought the device to photograph and videotape buildings for his commercial real estate company.

Max, who has flown the drone from the top of Colony Square in Midtown, above Atlantic Station and around the IBM building, says their dad gets them up early on Saturday mornings so that there won’t be heavy traffic in their footage. Max typically controls the drone while Sam edits the resulting video footage.

Over the summer, the brothers have been flying their new drone at their school, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, which is undergoing $22.5 million in renovations and additions. Sam is in the 10th grade at Holy Innocents’ and his younger brother is an eighth grader.

One of HIES’ architects, who knows the teens’ father, asked if the boys could film the renovation. The school has used footage from the drone to show parents how to maneuver carpools around the construction.

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brothers.

“It’s really good because our campus has gotten bigger and bigger over the years and it’s really nice to be able to say, ‘This is Alumni Hall. This is our preschool. This is our upper school. This is what’s going to happen,’” she said.

“The main reason we got [the brothers] to help is because with the construction, we wanted to document that. It’s been very beneficial. We’re using them for a lot of things now.”

The brothers hope to turn their work with the drone into a money-making endeavor someday, but say that right now that’s not possible. The federal government, the brothers said, allows use of drones for fun, but not profit.

“It’s illegal to do it commercially,” Sam said.

They also had to learn about fly zones – drones can’t be flown within five miles of places like airports or national parks.

“Everything is so new there are no official laws right now,” Max said. “It’s unclear what you can and can’t do.”

Max says he’s also learned a lot about photography, something he had not really been interested in before.

“I learned more about cameras and how to find different angles, and if I need a wide, medium or narrow lens,” he said.

The drone draws its share of onlookers, too.

One recent day, when Max was flying the drone over the HIES football field to prepare for filming a scrimmage, he said, “the security guard that let us in came down and asked us a bunch of questions.

Everyone is very interested.”

Plus, “it’s really fun to fly,” Max said.

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Work would begin in 2016 and conclude in 2019.

Homeowners, officials examine new design for interchange

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Fax Reynolds lives close to I-285 in Sandy Springs, so he worried that plans to remake the Perimeter Highway’s intersection with Ga. 400 into a huge, multi-level interchange could bring noisy cars closer to his home.

He was pleasantly surprised by what he saw on the wall-sized maps unveiled by state transportation officials on Aug. 19. It looked like the proposed new collector roads would still be raised above the level of his home, he said.

“It sounds like they are going to keep them above us, which is kind of nice,” he said.

Besides, he said, the proposed $900 million remake of the interchange is needed to keep traffic moving through the Perimeter area. About 400,000 cars now travel through the intersection, GDOT officials said.

“It’s a huge problem in Atlanta,” Reynolds said. “Sitting in traffic is terrible. If we have to sacrifice a little bit, I understand that for the sake of getting cars moving.”

State Department of Transportation officials propose to remake the I285-Ga. 400 intersection into a five-level interchange with collector and feeder roads stretching from west of Roswell Road to east of Ashford Dunwoody on I-285, and from Hammond Drive in the north to the Glenridge Connector in the south along Ga. 400.

Work on the project is expected to begin in 2016 and conclude in 2019, GDOT spokesman David Spear said.

The I-285-Ga. 400 project will connect with a separate project under way to build collector lanes along Ga. 400 north of Hammond Drive to Spalding Drive, GDOT officials said.

On Aug. 19, more than 100 residents and local officials talked JOE EARLE with GDOT consulStacy Garguilo, a resident of the Georgetown tants about the project, area of Dunwoody, wondered what the and surveyed huge maps project would mean for her neighborhood.

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Facing a possible 12-mile expansion of MARTA service north along the Ga. 400 corridor from the North Springs station, residents at an Aug. 19 Sandy Springs City Council meeting continued their push for the extension to run up the west side of the highway.

Northridge area resident Nancy Lesser said she supports MARTA efforts as long as it stays on the west side. She said she’s concerned Dunwoody Springs Elementary, located on the east side near the highway, would be destroyed if MARTA expanded in that location. “Can you imagine a bunch of elementary school kids watching MARTA be built and the destruction to the school?” she asked.

Opponents of east-side expansion had packed City Hall wearing red shirts and carrying small signs saying “MARTA Go West.”

Resident David Centofanti said residents and businesses on the west side would benefit more from MARTA. “The area west of Ga. 400 is primarily multifamily residences, commercial and retail businesses,” he said. “The area east of 400 is primarily single-family homes and schools. The west side ... has a better existing network of sidewalks, roads and facilities to support a transit station.”

But it will be a while before that decision is made. “We haven’t decided which side of Ga. 400 we want to be on,” said Mark Eatman, project manager at MARTA, giving a presentation on the proposal at the Aug. 19 meeting.

Eatman said a preliminary engineering and environmental study would be conducted before the agency can determine where the expansion might be located, whether on the west or east side of Ga. 400, or in the center of the highway.

MARTA is examining three options for the project: bus rapid transit, light rail and extending the current heavy rail line. The transit agency also is considering adding stations at Northridge Road, Holcomb Bridge Road, Mansell Road, North Point Mall, Old Milton Parkway and Windward Parkway.

Preliminary estimates show the bus option is expected to cost about $460 million, compared to $1.8 billion for light rail and $1.6 billion for heavy rail.

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“It’s a great day,” said Yvonne Williams, president and CEO of the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts.

Other local officials agreed. “I’m excited,” Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis said.

“I’m a big fan of this project,” said Dunwoody Planning Commission member Bill Grossman, who has served as president of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association. “The DHA has always supported the collector-distributor lanes. Anything we can do to get people to go around Dunwoody instead of through – that’s the bottom line.”

Several residents who live near I-285 also warmed to the project. “It’s good.

I’m in favor of it,” Gil Carter of Sandy Springs said. “They’ve minimized the effect on where we live.”

Carter said his home is so close to the interchange that “we can get a traffic report any time. We just go out and look.” The new plan, he said, removes some of the items he’d found troublesome in earlier proposals.

Other residents welcomed the improvement, but worried about having to deal with years of construction.

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dy Springs said. “But I think it’s going to make traffic worse, especially when they’re building it.”

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Anyone who spends decades in the dry cleaning business is sure to pick up some stories along the way.

Will Smith, who owns the Master Kleen on Roswell Road, says some of the most notable items he’s retrieved from customers’ pockets include a loaded pistol, $5,000 in cash and a lady’s high-heeled shoe.

“Always check your pockets,” he said. “You don’t want people to know too much about you, including your dry cleaner.”

Smith returns the items, of course, and that’s a fraction of the reason his franchise has stayed in business at the corner of Roswell and Mount Vernon roads since 1968.

That legacy ends on Aug. 29, when Smith hands back to his clients the last pieces of dry-cleaned clothing. In March, Sandy Springs City Council voted to authorize the use of eminent domain to acquire the property for the city’s city center project.

Smith’s father-in-law, Billy Dodd, started the business in 1968 and later opened another business in Cobb County on Powers Ferry Road. Smith left his banking career to run the Cobb business when it started in 1979, explaining that he wanted to become an entrepreneur rather than work for a big company.

“I helped build that plant,” he said, from pipe fitting to moving the machinery in. “I learned it literally from the ground up. I learned the nuts and bolts by building the equipment.”

But in the mid-90s, Cobb County took the property at the corner of Powers Ferry and Terrell Mill to widen the road.

Now, “it’s déjà vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say,” Smith said.

He took over the Sandy Springs location 17 years ago when his father-in-law died. Smith formed a close bond with his employees, whom he calls “family,” and he worries that they will be out of jobs as he’s retiring and not moving the

business to a new location.

“Lives are affected by this,” he said, “but hopefully it will open up other doors.”

He said all of his employees elected to stay until the end. Smith says that while the number of employees typically changes due to part-time help coming and going, about 13 people work there.

Smith says one employee has been there 30 years, and his manager has been there 18.

Some 250 high school students have come and gone from Master Kleen, too.

“We train them and give them a taste of real life, preparing them for college and business, teaching them to deal with the public and interact with adults,” he said. “We have found kids that have been through here come back and thank us for their experience here.”

Marilyn Bryant, store manager for 18 years, points to a doorframe where high school employees etched their names.

Bryant said she’s disappointed the city is forcing the business to close, as she will be out of a job come Aug. 29 and isn’t quite old enough to retire. “Change can be good,” she said, but “Sandy Springs should consider the people affected while making changes.”

Now Smith is hoping his customers pick up their remaining clothes as the city wants the business out of the building by Sept. 1. The last day for cleaning clothes is Aug. 28 and customers will have through the Aug. 29 to pick up items.

“We’re doing what I call ‘dialing for dollars,’” said Smith, likening the process to collection calls he had to make during his banking days. “We’re calling customers to say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to be here so I urge you to pick up your clothes.’”

He says those customers are disappointed when they hear the news. “There have been tears,” he said, explaining that in many cases he’s served three generations of some families.

“The people here have been overwhelmingly wonderful,” Smith said.

“We’ve developed friendships and remembrances that we will take with us forever.

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Opponents of the project, led by “There is no question this is an acW. Wright Mitchell, whose propercessory use to the church,” he said. ty abuts the house, argued the church Hilliard also accused the church of failed to properly notify residents failing to adequately inform neighbors about the construction. They also about the proposed changes to the maintained that a rectory is an accesproperty. sory structure to a church and does But Atlanta Zoning Chief Gregory not meet the criteria Pace told the appeals for properties zoned board the permits for residential use. were requested to alA crowd of about low additions to an 50, evenly divided existing single-fam“There is no question on the issue, turned ily house. Although this is an accessory out for the hearing the plans may state use to the church.” at City Hall. it will be used as a Following the 4-0 rectory, it will not vote, Mitchell said be a church, he said.

– HAKIM HILLIARD he was pleased that “This rectory is LAWYER the church adjusted simply a single-famits plans to remove ily house where the individual kitchpastor, clergy or recenettes and scrap a tor resides,” he said. proposed parking “Our office reviewed lot. the plans, and the floor plans show a “We’re pleased the (Peachtree single-family house.”

Heights West) Civic Association has Under Atlanta zoning code, a sinnegotiated use restrictions on the gle-family house may be occupied property,” Mitchell said this week. by up to six unrelated persons, Pace “We’ve still not had a chance to review said. the amended building plans and disAttorney Kathy Zickert, representcuss whether the restrictions negotiing the Archdiocese, said proper noated by the neighborhood are accepttifications were provided to neighable.” bors, and the house will be used for Lawyer Hakim Hilliard, representthe same purposes as any residening Mitchell and other residents optial property. There will be no counposed to the project, said appealing seling, no large, regular meetings, the ruling to Superior Court would and no masses said at the building, be one avenue his clients could purshe said. sue if they still want to dispute the Appeals board member Karl Barnes permits. said he could find nothing capricious In his arguments before the zoning in the church’s handling of the matter, adjustments board, Hilliard presentand he agreed with Zickert that rectoed affidavits attesting that the current ries perform no other function than to rectory at the Christ the King campus house members of the clergy. on Peachtree Road is used for counselZickert said the board made the ing, parish services and other institucorrect decision. tional services. He said there is noth“We really didn’t think this was ing in the original plans for the new questionable from the outset, so we’re rectory that would prohibit the same very pleased,” she said.

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pals, and they aren’t even is a good thing, I suggest sure why they are teachthat you leave the bubble ing it this way. They don’t that you’re in and ask to LE T T E R T O even have math books sit in a 4-5th grade public T HE E DIT OR (really), because the state school class for one day. hasn’t really committed We’re the lucky ones. to Common Core, eiWe are in the Top 5 APS ther. They get a blackschools, and we still don’t and-white printout of the lesson that have the resources for basic math. was photocopied. They have even sugIn a board room I’m sure Common gested that we teach them (after school) Core is a great idea, but come visit the the traditional way. classroom.

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“Buford Highway is our diamond in the rough.”.”

–Brookhaven City Councilman Joe Gebbia, on the city’s new plan for the Buford Highway corridor.

“One of the first things we want to do is change peoples’ impression [of the Buford Highway area]..”

–Dale Jaeger of The Jaeger Company, a landscape architecture and planning group, on Brookhaven’s Buford Highway plan.

“It may be legal, but is it moral? Is it right?”

–Dunwoody resident Eleanor Goodwin, on plans to subdivide a

lot next door to her and build two houses on it.

“We need to have a setting where people can come together. The arts center proposal is wrong for this community. It’s aroused all sorts of anger and stress. What I want to see happen in the city center is a small venue with 200 seats where people can experience a wide array of stimulating experiences.”

–Sandy Springs resident David Carr, on reaction to a plan to build a performing arts center in Sandy Springs as part of the new city center project.

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The family business Married couples learn how to work together at home and the office

BY LESLIE JOHNSON Michael Schiff boils down the pitfalls of working with a spouse to a basic foundation for all solid relationships: good communication.

“I think that is part of the success. We know our roles and we trust each other in doing those roles,” said Schiff, lead buyer’s consultant with Schiff Realty Partners, who has been with Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta since 2004.

He works with his wife, Leigh, who is lead listing consultant.

“Just with any successful organization, there has to be communication,” he said.

The Schiffs, who worked out of the Keller Williams Realty office on Glenridge Parkway, are among many couples in Atlanta and throughout the U.S. who balance home and business partnerships.

While it’s not always an easy feat – keeping distinct personal and professional lives is often a challenge – they work hard to keep both partnerships in tip-top shape.

Husband and wife business partners have been a strong sector of family businesses, which, according to experts at Harvard Business School, make up two-thirds of all the world’s businesses: • A 2011 Wall Street Journal article states that approximately one-third of family businesses are husband and wife teams; • A Family Business USA article cites data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners in 2007, the most recent year available, which found that there were 1.4 million firms jointly owned and equally operated by a husband and wife; • Husband and wife business partners have been on the rise for several years. According to information cited in a 2008 CNN-Money article from the American Family Business Survey, conducted by the MassMutual Financial Group and

Laura Castillo, with husband Miguel, says trust and respect are paramount when working side by side.

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Casey Dudek has taken the job as president of the Brookhaven chamber. Dunwoody chamber executive director Beth Summers has announced plans to resign her post effective Aug 22.

“In the past year, I have Beth Summers Casey Dudek learned what it takes to run a successful chamber,” Summers said. “It ness of the chamber. The chamber is has been a terrific experience and I am truplanning on opening an office at 2565 ly grateful.”

Apple Valley Road, Dudek said.

Summers’s successor will be chosen “We’re trying to find a space in by the organization’s board of directors.

Brookhaven for the chamber staff,” Former president and current board Dudek said, noting that moving into a member Don Boyken said a few prosrental space has “created a lot of energy” pects have been identified. among board members.

Brookhaven’s chamber evolved from Dudek said chamber founder Todd previous business associations after the creLantier had been the “driving force” beation of the city of Brookhaven in 2012. hind the Brookhaven chamber.

Dudek, who took over as president of “We have great leaders at the board the Brookhaven organization on July1, level,” Dudek said, adding that volunbelieves the bigger challenges include teers paved the way for the board to start not having an office and raising awarehosting events.

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PERIMETER BUSINESS Chris Carr, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, speaks to members of the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs chambers on Aug. 12 about the Perimeter area.

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Chris Carr, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, grew up in Dunwoody and still lives there. On Aug. 12, he took the podium at The Retreat at the Summit in Brookhaven and told about 170 members of the Dunwoody and Sandy Springs chambers of commerce that state officials view tourism, filmmaking and the arts as ways to attract future investment to the state.

After the talk, Reporter Newspapers asked Carr three questions about how he sees the Perimeter Center area’s future development. Here are his answers.

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The Perimeter center area is key to the development of the state. Whether it is a small business or Fortune 500 company – this area offers businesses ease of access with Georgia’s robust logistics infrastructure including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a highly-skilled workforce, a businessfriendly environment offering resources such as comprehensive corporate incentives and job tax credits, and much more.

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What sorts of businesses do you think will be attracted to the Perimeter area in the future?

Recent announcements in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs have ranged from software/technology, digital media, bioscience, a call center and a few headquarter relocations.

I expect that we will see the same type of businesses relocating or expanding in this area. We also expect to see retail and commercial businesses thrive in this area due to all of the new jobs and new businesses moving to this area.

The Perimeter area has also been successful in attracting television and film entertainment projects.

It is also important to note that Perimeter center hotel occupancy is the fastest growing in Atlanta metro, with RevPAR (revenue per available room) growing more than 25 percent in 2013. The increase in visitors, whether it is the leisure or business traveler, is having a significant impact in this area whether it is direct, indirect or induced spending.

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You mentioned in your talk that you are hearing more about traffic congestion as an issue in development. Do you think the congestion around the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange slows development in the area?

We have a great transportation network in Georgia. In fact, CNBC recently ranked us No. 1 for infrastructure with the world’s busiest airport and one of its busiest ports.

The topic of congestion has come up, but has not been an issue with new businesses coming to this area. Traffic is not something that is unique to Georgia or the metro Atlanta area.

The fact that Sandy Springs and Dunwoody have seen significant growth over the last few years tells us that it hasn’t slowed down growth – our logistics infrastructure, business resources, skilled workforce and pro-business environment are top of mind for site selectors and new businesses considering relocating in Georgia.

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Craig McCoy has been named CEO of Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. He takes the post Sept. 1, the hospital system announced.

McCoy joined Emory Healthcare in May 2011 as CEO of Emory Johns Creek Hospital. Since May 2014, McCoy has served as interim CEO of Emory Saint Joseph’s while also managing his responsibilities at Emory Johns Creek, the hospital said in a press release.

“Craig’s knowledge and expertise in the Atlanta health care market is a tremendous asset to our independent community physicians, Emory employed physicians, and staff members,” Emory Healthcare Craig McCoy President and CEO John T. Fox said in the release.

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Brokerage firm Charles Schwab plans to replace its current Dunwoody branch with a larger location early next year. According to Tomorrow’s News Today, the new location will be at the corner of Hammond Drive and Peachtree Dunwoody Road in a freestanding building adjacent to the new Citizen Perimeter apartments. Charles Schwab’s current Dunwoody location is at 1100 Abernathy Road within the Northpark Town Center office park. Charles Schwab previously relocated their Buckhead location to a new freestanding branch next to Grand Hyatt on Peachtree Road.

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“Randi’s personality is very outgoing and genuine, so she fits right in to the ‘sales’ side of our business. My personality, I think, leads me more toward the operations in that I really enjoy working and ‘reacting’ with our employees to the many curveballs that are thrown at you in the typical day of a restaurant.”

The importance of communication is the No. 1 theme echoed by other entrepreneurial couples in the Perimeter area.

But there are other pillars that are central to both a happy home and business life.

“The answer is very simple, but very Know each other’s skills important, and is our foundation. It is the same as making a successful marTo make the business partnership riage work,” said Laura Castillo, CEO work, Schiff said the couple must recogand principal of iSolv Technology Solunize each other’s strengths, interests and tions LLC. work styles, just as you would any othShe serves as a consultant for Castle er co-worker. Personality assessments are Painting. Her husband Miguel is owner a good way to find out about a person’s and president of Castle Painting LLC. The work style.

Castillos also are partners in a “Read each other’s reports, commercial investments comso they know their strengths,” pany, Castillo Properties LLC .

Co v er Schiff said. “You know how Trust and respect are parSt o r y they work at home, you don’t amount, Laura Castillo said. know how they work at work.

“We trust and respect in They may be outgoing with each other’s decisions and their friends, but not with making sales abilities and that we both have the same calls on people they don’t know.” best interests at heart,” she said. “No. 2 Kent Gipson of The Gipson Team, is communication. Being very open with who works with his wife Caroline, said communication is critical in any succomplementary abilities help make the cessful business. No. 3 is that we both work engine run smoother. are very entrepreneurial at our core.

“I think the major factors in our suc“We are both very passionate about cessful partnership are our different our work, and we love our people and skill-sets, along with similar personal our customers. A very important point and business philosophies,” Gipson said in a situation like ours is to recognize via email. and respect each other’s roles. Miguel is He first joined Keller Williams Realty the leader and he is the face of Castle. in the Southeast in 1999. Caroline GipI support him in my role to set him up son became part of The Gipson Team in for success – not to compete with him.

2005.

We have seen many situations where the Gipson described himself as “more husband and wife cross these lines, and of a right brain thinker” than his wife. it can be extremely destructive to the “This means I tend to be more creative, business and to the marriage.” and she is a ‘typical’ engineer in some Jay and Randi Medley of Newks Eatways, she can be very methodical and ery in Brookhaven work together, but process-oriented. Fortunately, we both take on separate duties. That helps their have the ability to see both sides, esperelationship work. cially Caroline. She’s truly the whole “Randi works closely with our caterpackage and great with people too. “ ing clientele, making sure they are well The Castillos share some traits, Laura taken care of. I work more inside the Castillo said, but where they differ only restaurant in operations and administrahelps their professional endeavors. tion,” Jay Medley shared via email.

PERIMETER BUSINESS “Miguel is very extraverted and loves to be out in the field and to meet new people,” Laura Castillo said. “He is very endearing and likeable, so he connects well with his customers.

“He has a very unique eye for color, which is extremely helpful helping his customers with color choices. He runs all sales and the crews on the projects. I am the numbers and technology geek. I focus on the business plan, the operational efficiency in the office and the marketing strategy. This is my background and what I love to do (and what I provide to my other clients).”

Separate business life from home life Couples say keeping work life separate from home life, when possible, is important to the longevity and strength of both partnerships.

The Schiffs, who have two small children, set aside “date night,” once a week, “where work is off limits,” Michael Schiff said. The Gipsons don’t discuss work after 8 p.m.

The Gipsons also have a deal that they can “call for a personal break and

we try to avoid turning this into our focal point for our conversation,” she said.

“Like many professionals in high demand positions, it’s important that he has my support to allow him to take care of business, and likewise, he supports my business needs. It’s a major advantage that we both truly understand each other’s situations and demands,” she said.

Couples learn how to make the most of family life, even when business can’t be completely tucked away.

“The restaurant sometimes bleeds into family life, and it’s just become an accepted part of our lives,” Medley said.

“It’s not too bad though. We are able to do all the important things to maintain a healthy home life.”

Advice for future husbandwife business partners

Spouses who work together suggest that others considering the same arrangement do their homework first, establish certain ground rules and always remain respectful.

“The advice we would give is to go into it with your eyes wide open,” Laura Castillo said. “Make sure you have a solid business plan and you are in complete agreement on the business strategy and on each other’s roles.

“You should also have an agreement that you won’t bring your personal matters to the office, and, likewise, you won’t allow the business to take over your life at home. Lastly, you must treat your business relationship with the same levels of trust and respect as you do in your marriage.”

Gipson’s tips for success for spouses in the workplace: Set limits.

“Establish some business and personal boundaries, stay in your own lane and refrain from criticizing,” he SPECIAL said. “When the inevitable disMichael and Leigh Schiff say agreement comes up, we have good communication is crucial recently agreed to ‘stay in the when working together. ring’ (unless it’s after 8 p.m.) until we both feel we’re heard re-schedule any conversation at anothby the other or we’ve reached a mutuer time,” Gipson said. “This is easier said al understanding. I’ve figured out I can than done, yet we are going on 10 years be right or happily married, usually not as business partners and our marriage both.” and business gain strength every year.”

Medley, of Newks, also suggests having Laura Castillo said maintaining two an honest conversation about each other’s separate relationships is key. strengths and weaknesses.

“While at work, we focus on business “You probably already have an idea decisions as business partners. We don’t of what they are, but sit down and write bring our personal situations to the ofdown what you think your partner would fice nor do we discuss personal matters be good at and why,” he said. “Then get in front of our team,” she said. together, share notes, laugh and cry a lit“When we leave work, we leave work. tle, and try to come to some agreements.

We make it a point to greet each oth“Know, however, that you never er at the end of the day as other couples know exactly what you’re getting into do that don’t work together – with a kiss until you get into it, so there needs to and, ‘How was your day?’ be an understanding that roles may need “Miguel is in constant communicato change to adapt to new challenges. tion with his crew leaders and customThat’s an important piece that both peoers, so he does take many calls in the ple need to understand, acknowledge evening and on the weekends, however and be willing to do.”

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FAMILY FUN

Blue & Gray Day

the Special Care Nursery but also the Labor and Delivery, and Family Centered Care areas. Free. Northside Hospital Atlanta, Women’s Center Atrium, 1000 Johnson Ferry Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30341. Call 404-845-5555 or go to: https://classes.northside.com to register or to find out more.

Play Bridge Tuesday, Aug. 26, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – The Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta presents: “Be a friend, tell a friend: A free, fun Duplicate Bridge game for social players.” Play Bridge and learn the mechanics of Duplicate Bridge. Masterpoints for the winners. An additional free play at local clubs given to all participants. Crowne Plaza Ravinia, 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Atlanta, 30346.

For information, email: mintzbridge@gmail.com. To learn more, go to: www.dbaa.us.

Saturday, Aug. 30, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. – Heritage Sandy Springs commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War with museum exhibits, lecture series and handson family programming in a day titled “Federal Soldiers Take the Field.” In the summer of 1864, the small farming community of Sandy Springs was overtaken by more than 100,000 Federal soldiers. Some welcomed their arrival and took refuge behind the lines while most tried to simply survive by saving what food they could from the hungry troops. Free and open to all. Heritage Sandy Springs Museum, 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, 30328. For more information, call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

Movies By Moonlight

Thursday, Sept. 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m. – Take lessons with the Bridge Club of Atlanta. Six-week series; also starts Tuesday, Sept. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $110 in advance; $125 at the door. For more information call Sam Marks at 770354-6033. Fountain Oaks Shopping Center, 4920 Roswell Rd., Suite 33, Atlanta, 30342. Go to: www.bridgeclubatlanta.com to find out more.

Taste of Mexico Wednesday, Sept. 3, 6-8 p.m. – Join the Atlanta History Center to kick-off the 2014 Big Read with a festive celebration featuring an evening of culinary treats and the sounds of Mexico. Program staff will register participants for the Big Read, and distribute reader’s guides and bookmarks. The Big Read is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. Free. All are welcome. 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, 30305. Call 404814-4000 or visit: www.atlantahistorycenter.com with questions.

Star Gazing

ent weather, another night will be announced. 200 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. Pre-registration requested by calling 770-730-5600 or going to: www.sandyspringsga.gov/registration.

Volunteer Work Day Saturday, Sept. 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. – Work alongside seasoned park volunteers at the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area repairing trails, removing non-native invasive plants, or picking up trash. Tools and training provided by park staff and fellow volunteers. Free. Park entrance fees waived. Work days at various park locations. Contact David Thomas at 678-538-1244 to find out more. Go to: www.nps.gov for details.

Meditation Saturday, Sept. 6, 3-5 p.m. – Science on the effects of meditation has been a growing area of psychological and neurological research. Modern scientific techniques and instruments such as fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and EEG have been used to see what happens in people when they meditate, and how their bodies and brains change after meditating regularly. Learn about scientific studies showing the health benefits of meditation and more. Free. Open to the public. For adult audiences.

Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 or email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us with questions.

Lunch & Learn Monday, Sept. 8, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. – Join the Lunch & Learn programs of Perimeter Adult Learning & Services (PALS). Topics include: exercise; money: middle class and the Federal Reserve; jewelry making; the first Native Americans in the Southeast; open painting class; presidents of the 1840s and 1850s; women of valor; laughing yoga; travel; Milton vs. God – Paradise Lost; Bridge and Mahjongg. Classes run through Oct. 27. Catered lunch with reservation. Brochures available by calling 770-6980801 or online at www.palsonline.org. Dunwoody Baptist Church, 1445 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

Friday, Sept. 5, 6-10 p.m. – The community is welcome to attend this annual outdoor series, sponsored by Leadership Sandy Springs. The film is “Despicable Me2,” a 3D computer-animated comedy, and the sequel to the 2010 “Despicable Me.” Free. Outdoors. Food for sale; kids’ activities. Sandy Springs United Methodist Church, 86 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-256-9091 in case of inclement weather. For further details, visit: www.leadershipsandysprings.org.

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Thursday, Aug, 28, 6 p.m. – Atlanta-based The Packway Handle Band, hits the stage, with their sound steeped in old-fashioned bluegrass. Concert runs 6:30-8 p.m. Tick-

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ets: $5, ages 21 and up; $2, ages 13-20; free for 12 and under. Blankets, picnics and coolers welcomed. Pets and smoking not allowed. Parking available on Sandy Springs Place in designated parking lots. Sandy Springs Society Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org or call 404851-9111 for further details. Visit: www.packwayhandle. com to learn more about the band.

Free and open to the public. Many homes participating. Neighborhood maps available. Look for bright pink yard sale signs and pink balloons. Located behind the Brookhaven MARTA station, between North Druid Hills and Dresden Dr., 30319. Questions?

Contact Patty Green at 404-550-6502 or pattygreen999@bellosuth.net.

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Beer & Whiskey Fest

Sunday, Aug. 31, 2-11 p.m. – The 10th Annual Beer & Whiskey Fest, at the Buckhead Saloon, features a variety of whiskies & Georgia breweries, food, and four rock & country bands, while raising money for the PATH Foundation. Tickets: $10-$15 in advance; $20 at the door.

3227 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-963-7739 for details or for more information about the event’s schedule, visit: www.beerandwhiskeyfest.com.

Monday, Sept. 1, 7:30 a.m. – A Labor Day tradition!

Celebrate the end of summer by running a 10K, and attending a post-race party with food, drink, vendors and music. Fee for timed runners: $40 through Aug. 30; $50 race day. Funds go toward Cystic Fibrosis research. Race is a 2015 Peachtree Road Race qualifier.

Free shuttle buses to and from race start. Course goes from Chamblee MARTA station, 5200 New Peachtree Rd., 30341, to 3495 Buckhead Loop, 30326. Register at: www.bigpeachrunningco.com or at www.active.com through Aug. 27.

Multi-Family Yard Sale Saturday, Sept. 6, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. – Brookhaven Fields holds its 20th annual multi-family yard sale! Browse through antiques or gently-used household goods, furniture, toys, crafts, clothes or collectibles – you never know what treasures you might find!

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Photographer brings the unexpected, ‘quirky fun’ to exhibit

BY JENNA GOFF Atlanta-based artist Steve Steinman views the world in an unusual way. His photographs encourage others to do the same.

“I want people to look at my photographs and say, ‘Did you see that?!’” he said.

His exhibit at Dunwoody’s Spruill Gallery, held in conjunction with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, is based entirely on that theme. The work aims to provide a commentary on the abnormal in everyday life. The exhibit will remain open until Oct. 25.

“Steinman’s subject matter is both quirky fun and thoughtfully provoking,” said Jennifer Price, the gallery director at Spruill. “The works in this exhibit include photographs of street performers, food trucks, public art projects and intriguing architectural elements.”

These subjects come from all over the country and even around the world. “For 33 years, I was the dean of the School of Design with American InterContinental University,” Steinman said. “The job required me to do a lot of traveling, and everywhere I went, I made sure I had a day to explore and really get to know a place.”

Many of the photographs that will be exhibited at the Spruill Gallery are things he witnessed on his travels. “Each photograph has a story behind it,” said Steinman.

His audience will see street performers in Tijuana, architectural details in Seattle, stills of everyday life in London and wall art from Atlanta. The photographs challenge viewers to perceive these scenes in a different, surreal light.

“Most people with an untrained eye look at art and at life and don’t quite understand what they’re seeing,” Steinman said. “They don’t know how to see. I want people who look at my photography to ask questions and learn.”

He will answer some questions at an “artist talk” on Sept. 27 at 1 p.m. The event is an opportunity for Steinman to share his inspirations and discuss his artistic process. But in the meantime, he hopes his photographs alone will open people’s minds.

His editing procedure reflects the way he wants people to view the world. “Many of his images have been digitally manipulated in a way that leaves the final product with a painterly quality,” said Price.

Steinman uses a technique called High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR). This process involves taking multiple photographs with slightly different shutter speeds and combining them into one.

The end result is a photograph with a greater range of exposure and detail, he said. He also does a considerable amount of digital editing.

“I try to give the illusion where images become like stage-fronts,” said Steinman. “Traditional photography is pretty much seeing a moment, capturing it and that’s it. I’m trying to take it to a whole new level and introduce different viewpoints.”

He seeks some of his inspiration from vintage postcards, and he manipulates his photographs to mimic their quality.

“I am enamored by the look of old postcards and graphics,” he said. “The surreal and flat feeling of them is not something that you see today. I incorporate that to give a statement.”

Steinman’s technique also encourages his audience to view scenes from everyday life as works of art. He wants his viewers to step back and become a part of the different and unique events, people and places surrounding them.

“Our society is always glued to their phones – they’re not looking at what’s around them,” he said. “I aim to show the abstractions that people miss.”

Did you see that?!

Stories of Urban Oddities What: An exhibit featuring the photography of Steve Steinman Where: The Spruill Gallery, 4681 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, 30338 When: August 22-October 25 How much: Free For more info: www.spruillarts.org; www.stevesteinmanfineart.com

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Atlanta-based artist Steve Steinman has traveled the world taking photographs, seeking out the “abormal” in everyday life.

Above, “Peek-A-Boo-Bear.” Right, center and below, Steinman and some of his work.

Right, second from bottom, “Standing On Top of the World.” Bottom, “Girl With Glasses.” Below, “Roadside Rocket.”

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High School Football 2014 Starting over Local teams return to the field to follow up their successes, failures of 2013

BY BOB PEPALIS Lovett School Football Coach Mike Muschamp sees a challenge this fall. His team won the state AA football championship last year. Now it’s 2014. The Lovett Lions start over.

“The biggest challenge is to get the new team to realize that they have done nothing to this point. Everyone wants to celebrate and enjoy last year’s accomplishment, as they should, Muschamp said.

“But that is over.”

Some players remain from the 2013 team, but Muschamp says that team no longer exists. “They made their mark.

What kind of chapter is this group going to add to the history of Lovett football?” he said.

It’s in the nature of the high school game. A team that is up one year can be down the next. Top players graduate and head to college. Teams move to new leagues, so schedules get tougher.

Once successful teams struggle to repeat as champions for many reasons complacency, apathy, satisfaction, a feeling of entitlement. The year after the Buckhead-based Lovett Lions’ championship 2013 season, Muschamp finds all of these feelings are entwined as he deals with putting a new team on the field and trying to mold them to repeat as champions.

“That sense of urgency that existed before is hard to recreate,” he said in an email interview.

At Holy Spirit Preparatory School in Sandy Springs, Head Football Coach David Rosenzweig faces a different problem altogether. Last year, the Cougars won only a single game. This year, his team moves to a new league and the competition is expected to be tougher.

Holy Spirit played in the GFC (Glory for Christ) football league from 2011 to 2013, but has switched to this year to the Georgia Independent School Association, known as GISA. In 2011, the team was undefeated in the GFC and won the league title.

“The GFC league was a good place for us to be for a couple of years. But last year, the morale of the students was dropping,” Rosenzweig said.

The Holy Spirit team, with 21 players, will have the smallest roster in its league. The varsity team includes four freshmen, and at least some of them are

Above, The Lovett School’s head football coach Mike Muschamp, back right, discusses the game plan against North Atlanta High School with his players on Aug. 15. Right, the Lovett Lions scrimmaged against the North Atlanta High School Warriors, with both schools putting their junior varsity players on the field for the first quarter and the varsity team on for the other three quarters. Lovett JV outscored North Atlanta JV 21-0.

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 2014 Chamblee Charter Bulldogs Aug. 29 Sept. 5 Sept. 19 Sept. 26 Oct. 3 Oct. 10 Oct. 17 Oct. 24 Oct. 31 Nov. 7

Coach: Allen Johnson vs. Druid Hills @ Dunwoody @ Arabia Mountain vs. Stone Mountain 2013 @ Redan Record: vs. Lithonia 6-4-0 @ St Pius X vs. Grady @ Columbia vs. Marist

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2013 Record: 1-9-0

Coach: Jim Showfety vs. Clarkston vs. Chamblee vs. Carver-Atlanta 2013 @ Lakeside Record: vs. Druid Hills vs. Stephenson 3-7-0 @ Southwest DeKalb @ Miller Grove @ ML King

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Coach: Steve Horton vs. Woodland-Henry 7:30 p.m. @ Pinecrest Academy 7:30 p.m. @ River Ridge 7:30 p.m.

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Coach: Ben Stready @ Coosa vs. Holy Innocents’ 2013 @ Creekview vs. North Atlanta Record: @ Forsyth Central 7-4-0 vs. Sprayberry @ North Springs vs. Kell @ Cambridge

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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL 2014

High school football teams in Reporter Newspapers communities are begining their 2014 season.

Above, the Dunwoody High School Wildcats faced the North Springs Charter High School Spartans in a scrimmage on Aug. 15. Wildcats wide receiver Marshall Wagner leaps up to grab a pass. Top middle, a Spartan rushes for yardage.

Middle, North Springs parents Denise and Steve Spiegel enjoy the game while, below, Wildcat Nic Pastrone intently watches the action from the sideline. Bottom, Wildcats offensive line coach Fred Shambry questions a play.

Far right, Abel Cahill, a Cross Keys High School Indians football player, works out in the weight room as he prepares for the team’s first scrimmage against Loganville High School on Aug. 15.

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High school football gears up for a new season CONTINUED FROM PAGE 20

The North Atlanta High School Warriors took on The Lovett School Lions during a scrimmage on Aug. 15. Right, students from both schools watch the game from “Warrior Hill.”

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSER

Above, left, a Lovett School Lion takes off down the field against the Warriors. Both schools played their junior varsity teams for the first quarter, with the varsity teams stepping on the field for the final three quarters. Lovett JV outscored North Atlanta JV 21-0. Right, a nice ankle tackle on the ball carrier by a Warrior player. Below, left, food trucks kept the crowds from going hungry. Below, right, the Warriors enter the stadium, greeted by cheerleaders.

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expected to win starting jobs. “When you have 21 guys, it’s all hands on deck and everyone’s got to help out,” the coach said.

But the players want to face that challenge, Rosenzweig said.

“They remember what it was like to have intense practices, intense games and playing in the title game. And they know that that possibility of a title game this year is going to be a very improbable task, but they want it and they want to get the school ready for it,” Rosenzweig said.

A dozen players remain from the 2011 championship team. They were freshmen then; they are seniors now.

“It’s really important to us because freshman year was amazing, and we really struggled sophomore and junior year,” said Kyle Winkler, a senior running back and outside linebacker. “We didn’t really have this type of pride that we have.

And I can see on the field and outside of football how the football players are really holding [themselves] really high.

“I think we are excited because we get to test ourselves against much bigger teams that we are going to have to face,” Winkler said.

Rosenzweig said his team has only one direction to go: up.

“The wins and losses are not goal No. 1 for our program. It’s to get it going in the right direction, give them a place to have a great time, and have that brotherhood on the field,” he said.

In Brookhaven, the Marist School has long fielded one of the state’s most successful programs. This year, the War Eagles will be tested early, their coach says. They start their season facing several tough challengers, including Lovett, a team that beat Marist in overtime last year.

But Marist Coach Alan Chadwick remains hopeful.

“We feel relatively good about our chances of having a pretty good football team,”Chadwick said.

Marist opens its season Aug. 30 in the “Battle of the Borders” showdown scheduled for Georgia Perimeter College’s Halliford Stadium in Clarkston.

Marist will meet Godby High School of Tallahassee, Fla., which is ranked seventh in the nation. Kickoff is set for 11:45 a.m.

Marist coaches feel confident about their linesmen, but worry a bit about their young playmakers, Chadwick said.

Still, 24 returning seniors help build confidence, he said.

“I hope [the team will] play hard and play with some enthusiasm,” Chadwick said. “We hope to be in the hunt for a region championship,” he said.

Last year, the War Eagles lost to the Carrollton High School Trojans 44-42 in the fourth overtime of their semifinal game in the state AAAA finals.

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EDUCATION Student Profile:  Nathan Sokolic  Pace Academy Class of 2014 Community service has always been a passion for Nathan Sokolic. Graduating with more than 1,400 hours of community service, Nathan has been a service leader for Habitat for Humanity, a Sunday school teacher, a volunteer with underprivileged children, and was even selected as one of Atlanta’s 20 under 20 individuals who are impacting their communities in amazing ways.

Nathan has done a great deal of work with Mama Rosa’s Kids Inc., which is a community outreach program that takes care of children with difficult backgrounds by providing them with meals and a safe place to spend their day.

Nathan credits his mother and the sacrifices she made for him as the inspiration for him to help other children in need. He said, “People were put into my life to help me get to the next step, and it would be selfish of me to not do that for another kid who needs it even more than I did when I was growing up.”

Nathan was one of five students in Atlanta and 220 students around the nation to be accepted into the Bank of America’s Student Leader program – an eight-week summer internship program where the members get hands-on experience with nonprofit organizations. Nathan worked with the East Lake Foundation where his work varied from volunteering at homeless shelters with children to working in the East Lake Community Garden.

“It was a fantastic experience seeing other people commit their lives to people who sometimes just can’t even help themselves,” he said.

Nathan has generated enthusiasm from his mentors. Cecilie Goodman, community relations manager at Bank of America, said, “In every project, training and group exercise during

his summer as a Bank of America Student Leader, it was obvious that Nathan is a natural leader with the intangible ‘it’ factor we all hope to embody.

“He’s calmly enthusiastic, encouraging to others, and direct in a friendly and graceful manner. Most importantly, Nathan is grounded – by his family, friends, commitment to education and innate desire to do good in this world.”

In his junior year of high school, Nathan was invited to a Student Diversity Leadership Conference in Houston, Texas. After, when he returned to school, he realized that he could use the skills he learned at the conference to forward Pace’s diversity program. Over Christmas break, he worked to develop a model program through which students and faculty could work together to promote diversity at Pace. His model has spread and been implemented in other area schools.

What’s Next: Nathan is attending Haverford College this fall. He received a scholarship, part of which includes a grant he can use to fund community nonprofits of his choice. He is also taking part in a social injustice program in Philadelphia prior to starting his freshman year at Haverford.

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ty and a laundry list of other issues that needed quick solutions.

“We wanted to open this school year with more cohesiveness and less craziness,” she said. “That’s part of building trust back with the community.”

One of her top priorities was hiring new principals, since there was a twothirds turnover in school leadership.

Carstarphen was candid about the sorry state of hiring when it came to principals at APS. “We brought more rigor to the principal selection process,” she said, “because it was clear that background checks hadn’t been performed, and there was a disconnect between finding principals that had vision and direction for the school we were hiring them to lead. There was this looseness about hiring and accountability. Those days are over.”

With principals in place, Carstarphen said the dismal job APS had done in the past of recruiting teachers early would also be a thing of the past. “This has been a problem that has plagued APS,” she said. “We’re going to begin looking for teachers early in the year instead of a month before school starts.”

Carstarphen was also able to shake loose money to hire more teachers over the summer so that when classes resumed on Aug. 4 there were only a handful of openings left. Rather than hire unqualified teachers, Carstarphen said there were long-term substitutes

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While there are many short-term fixes that need to be made, Carstarphen is also looking ahead. While fielding questions from the audience, she again spoke candidly about her opinions and feelings on everything from early learning and charter schools to high stakes testing and classroom size.

Carstarphen is a firm supporter of early learning, but she said funding and a commitment from the state and community would be big factors in expanding the opportunities. One potential funding source: the Georgia Lottery.

“We are looking at how to do it for APS, but I think it could expand statewide,” she stated. “We need a commitment from the Georgia Legislature on expanding early childhood education, and we need parents locally and across Georgia to get behind it.”

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ed. “We live in a democracy, so we need to offer alternatives and choices, and charter schools are just one of those.”

She was adamant that charter schools should not be where you “escape” when one of the traditional public schools isn’t performing as well as it should. Carstarphen also wants to set up advisory councils and oversight committees to give parents and the community more of a voice in the district.

Carstarphen isn’t a fan of so-called “high stakes” testing, calling it demoralizing and limiting to the education process. When asked about the low math rates on the End of Course Testing (EOCT) that Georgia’s ninth through 12th graders must take, Carstarphen said she didn’t have the answer yet. “We know there needs to be more rigor in the classroom to get results, but we’re not even sure what that rigor is, and neither do the teachers,” she said. “We have no model for it. I need time to figure it out.”

Carstarphen turned the conversation about classroom size back to the need for recruiting the best teachers. She believes that there should be

smaller classrooms for early grades, but once students move to middle and high school, having a quality teacher in the classroom is more important than class size.

Carstarphen closed the meeting by addressing the divide of north and south in the district.

There’s an often unspoken opinion that the schools in north Atlanta are better than the ones in the south, and the new superintendent is not having it. She faced a similar racial and socio-economic divide between east and west schools in the Austin school district and worked hard to erase those invisible barrier lines.

“There’s a lot of misunderstanding and judgment about north and south in APS – a tension that shouldn’t exist,” Carstarphen said. “The district will never be as great as it can be until we make thoughtful decisions so that all families are equal.”

She said APS should feel like a system and not individual schools.

“We need to embrace a fully-functioning school system,” Carstarphen said. “We are all APS, and what we have to ask ourselves is, ‘How do we make the entire system strong?’”

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ROBBERY  200 block of Wieuca Road – A robbery of a pedestrian in the park was reported during the morning of Aug. 5. The victim was grabbed by someone, forced to the ground and punched in the head and face. Though the attacker never displayed a weapon, the victim was threatened that if he moved, the attacker would shoot. After running into the wood line to get free, the victim returned to his vehicle and discovered an Apple iPod, a black wallet with identification and credit cards, a Garmin GPS and a set of vehicle keys missing. The victim phoned police after friends took him to retrieve a spare key.  3000 block of Peachtree Road – A robbery with a semi-automatic handgun was reported during the morning of Aug. 3. A pedestrian at SunTrust was approached from behind from a man who came from a set of bushes, pointing a hand gun and demanding the victim “give up his money.” The victim gave the attacker $2,000 and the attacker ran off toward Pharr Road. The victim drove to his residence where he phoned police.  3500 block of Peachtree Road NE – A robbery of a woman by two men was reported during the morning of Aug. 4. While walking to her car, two men ran up to the victim and one man punched her in the face while the other yelled at her to give up her car.

The attackers took the woman’s purse and her BMW 530. Two witnesses who heard the woman screaming called 911 from a nearby restaurant. The victim was taken to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment of her injuries.  3700 block of Roswell Road – A robbery of a man near Waffle House was reported during the morning of Aug. 5. The victim watched as two men driving a Chevy Malibu parked in a lot and walked north on Roswell Road. Upon approaching his Infinity, the men ran up with handguns yelling for the man to give up his keys. After yelling, “Don’t shoot,” the victim dropped his keys, wallet and cell phone. He watched as the Chevy followed his stolen Infiniti out of the parking lot at the BB&T bank.  2000 block of Cheshire Bridge Road NE – A commercial robbery was reported in the evening of Aug. 5, when a car wash manager was threatened by a man with a gun. The gunman walked over to the manager asking, “Where is the grocery store?” The manager pointed in the direction of the store, and asked the gunman to stay off the car wash property. The gunman walked around the perimeter of the property and aimed his gun at the manager’s head while he was looking down.

BURGLARY  500 block of W Paces Ferry Road NW – A burglary without forced entry was report-

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ed when the victim discovered $1,000 missing from a home safe. Surveillance footage showed a former employee entering the residence.  1500 block of Chattahoochee Ave NW – A burglary was reported when a victim called police to report a broken door panel and $60 missing.  3600 block of N Stratford Road – A burglary was reported during the day Aug. 6 when an unsecured back door allowed burglar(s) to take a Nikon camera and two other cameras, jewelry, $50 in cash, two television sets, 40 DVDs, five bottles of liquor, two cases of diet coke and a 9mm Taurus handgun were taken from three victims.  700 block of Lindbergh Drive – A burglary without forced entry was reported during the day Aug. 8. Two flat screen Samsungs, a 50-inch and a 42-inch, were taken.  2100 block of Cheshire Bridge Road NE – A burglary was reported during the morning of Aug. 7, when a locked box with various prescriptions was taken off the resident’s bed. No forced entry was apparent. 

1000 block of Lindridge Drive NE – A burglary was reported during the morning of Aug. 8, when the resident saw a man halfway through his unlocked living room window. When the man saw the resident, he jumped back out of the window, jumped a chain fence in the backyard and ran away. Nothing was taken and police attempted to collect fingerprints.

 900 block of Lindbergh Drive NE – A burglary was reported

during the morning of Aug. 8 when the victim realized a back door was left unsecured and two wallets with credit cards and identification, HP laptop and keys to a 2005 Lincoln Navigator and a 2001 Mazda Millennia were missing.

 600 block of Morningside Drive NE – A burglary was reported during the morning of Aug. 9, after a screen was removed from a window with a key to the basement door in the window sill. The basement door was unlocked. A purse and keys were removed from the kitchen table and taken to the basement area. An Apple laptop was taken from a bag in the den area and a laptop computer was taken from a computer desk.

A wallet with driver’s license and credits cards was taken as was a BMW.

LARCENY FROM VEHICLE  4400 block of Stella Drive NW – A car parked on the city street was reported with an off-track window. A spare tire with wheel, tool kit, CD player, cup holder, gear handle, floor mats, cigarette lighter and front hood emblem were taken.

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Buckhead Police Blotter CONTINUED FROM PAGE 28  3200 block of Northside Parkway – A theft was reported during the day Aug. 4, after an unsecured vehicle parked at the Atlanta Public Library. A Brighton purse with a driver’s license, an unknown amount of currency, a Seiko watch and credit cards were taken.

side window was broken on a second vehicle, from which $5 in change was taken from the center console. The rear passenger window was broken on a third vehicle, but nothing was taken. The front passenger window was broken on a fourth vehicle, and a 64-gigabyte iPod was taken from the center console.

 1100 block of Huff Road NW – A theft from a vehicle in a parking deck was reported during the morning Aug. 3. An in-dash Pioneer CD player and a black with gold chain book bag, containing a 16-gig hard drive, were taken. No signs of forced entry were apparent.

 300 block of East Paces Ferry Road – A victim reported a car with a broken driver side window. The car had been rummaged through, but no items were reported missing.

 700 block of Wesley Drive NW – A theft from a vehicle parked at a house was reported during the day Aug. 4. The right back passenger window was broken. Items taken from the car include a purse with wallet and makeup, a Rolex watch, driver’s license, debit card, a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, a Dillard’s store credit card and $40.  1900 block of Howell Mill Road – A theft from a vehicle was reported during the day Aug. 6. A passenger side window was broken and a red backpack and gray Asus laptop were taken from the rear driver seat.  300 block of Pharr Road NE – A theft from a vehicle was reported Aug. 4. The rear passenger window was damaged and pry marks were visible on the window frame. A Nikon camera and a Tamron lens were taken; a theft was reported during the morning Aug. 3. A witness saw three men in a silver Nissan Altima inside the parking deck at the time of the thefts. The driver’s side window was pried and broken, and a gym bag was taken from the back seat of one vehicle. The passenger

 100 block of Vivian Lane NE – A theft was reported during the evening Aug. 8, when a hole was punched under the car door lock and a brown bag with an HP laptop was taken from the front passenger floorboard.  1800 block of Peachtree Road NW – A theft was reported during the evening Aug. 4, when a rear window was broken and a Nikon camera with lens was taken from the floorboard of the vehicle.  1900 block of Peachtree Road NW – A theft was re-

ported during the morning Aug. 4, after a hole was punched in a door handle and a black Craftsman tool box with tools was taken.

 2100 Peachtree Road NW– A theft was reported during the day Aug. 6, when a driver’s door handle was damaged and a laptop bag that contained an HP laptop, an Apple iPad, $700 in currency, a passport, misc. papers and a check was taken from the trunk.

 3100 block of Peachtree Road – A taxi driver reported during the morning Aug. 7 that a customer took the driver’s companyissued Apple iPad.  2000 block of Peachtree Road NW – Two thefts from vehicles parked at Shepard Center were reported during the evening Aug. 8. The first vehicle had its front door handle lock punched, and two Apple iPads, an Apple iPhone 4S and a Dell laptop were taken. The second vehicle had damage on the driver side door, and an Apple iPhone, iPad and car stereo were taken.

400 block of Hascall  Road NW – A theft from a ve-

hicle was reported during the morning Aug. 9, after an Apple Notebook Pro and $180 cash was taken.

3200 block of Roswell Road NE – A theft from a vehicle

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at The Big Ketch was reported during the evening Aug. 5, after the rear window was broken and an Apple iPad, MacBook, iPhone, Go Pro camera, an external hard drive, a Sonic toothbrush, a pair of sunglasses and a back pack were taken.

 3300 block of Peachtree Road NE – A theft from a vehicle was report-

ed during the day Aug. 9 when a rear window was damaged and an Apple iPad, Sony PlayStation and a pair of Astro headphones were taken.

 800 block of Haven Oaks Court NE – A theft from a vehicle was reported during the day Aug. 8. A resident said a Stihl weedeater, two leaf blowers, and broom were taken

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MEETING The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust – will have a Board Meeting on September 3, 2014, 11:00 a.m. at the Sandy Springs Hospitality and Tourism Center, 5920 Roswell Road, Suite A-118, Sandy Springs, Georgia 30328.

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from his lawn trailer, while he was inside the home.  3400 block of Kingsboro NE – A theft from a vehicle was reported when the victim discovered his Targus and an HP laptop missing.

The vehicle was left unsecured because the owner’s key fob (electronic key lock) was defective.  2700 block of Lenox Road NE – Three vehicle thefts were reported in Lenox Village during the evening Aug. 7. The first victim said he saw as was walked to his vehicle two men in a gold Malibu or Chevy Impala driving through the parking lot with “ghost face masks” on. The suspects said, “Give me all your money,” without displaying any weapons. The man threw $60 into the suspects’ window. The victim discovered his rear truck window damaged and his Apple MacAir laptop had been taken. Victim two discovered his driver side rear window damaged and a black backpack, gold clubs and a Lenovo laptop taken. Victim three discovered his rear window damaged and a Lenovo laptop, Verizon MyFi Hotspot and a black mouse.  3300 block of Peachtree Road NE –A theft from a vehicle was reported during the evening Aug. 9, after Abercrombie, Bloomingdale’s and Victoria’s Secrets bags were taken while the victim was at the food court. The vehicle was left unsecured due to lock issues.  2300 block of Parkland Drive NE – Two thefts from a vehicle at Sorelle Apartments were reported during the morning Aug. 4, after damage to the driver side door locks were discovered. An Apple iPad 2 and a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses were taken from the first vehicle. A Bersa Thunder 380 handgun (unknown serial number) was taken from the second vehicle.

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