SEPTEMBER 14 - 27, 2018 • VOL. 12— NO. 19
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Getting football festive
Loridans park design options are revealed BY ALEC LARSON Two design options have been revealed for a new city park on Loridans Drive. On Sept. 11, the nonprofit Park Pride showed two alternative design concepts to about 20 residents at a meeting at St. James United Methodist Church on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. As part of their Park Visioning project for the potential Loridans Drive park, members of the Park Pride team went over a series of concepts they envisioned including within the proposed park. See LORIDANS on page 30
PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER
Ann Hart Hunter, a parent of three Westminster Schools students, greets guests in the barbecue tent during the annual PAWS Pigskin Picnic, which helped kick off varsity football on the evening of Sept. 7. Despite the varsity cheerleaders, show in the inset photo, urging them on, the Wildcats lost 24-7 to the Marist War Eagles.
ROBIN’S NEST Leafing through memories of a teacher’s lifelong influence
I think that a summer break is the one thing that helped get me through the monotony of the school year. A 59-year-old Atlanta man
Should we change the school calendar? Page 13
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OUT & ABOUT Act3 troupe brings on ‘Godspell 2012’ Page 8
Activists aimed to spark local ‘protest’ about local white nationalist BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net Activists who posted flyers about a white nationalist homeowner in Peachtree Hills say they hoped to “see some sort of protest” from the community and think the reaction from the local civic association was a way to “normalize racism.” Last month’s publicity efforts by Atlanta Antifascists, a far-left group, tarSee ACTIVISTS on page 14