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Design of park over Ga. 400 draws questions

BY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWIS doing their daily It says somet hing about warmup — mimic a high school class when a leader of the king the fire alarm goes moment in interp off and nobod reting music races gleefully through movem y for the door. ent.

“They were frustra Pace Academy theater teache ted because r Sean Bryhaving a blast,” they were an said his “entire class Bryan said. moane d in great frustration” On top of that, when a fire darn it, they drill sounded had to put their shoes back ing a recent duracting class. on.

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BY JACLYN TURNER A dramatic design for a new park capping Ga. 400 through the business district got its first public presentation—and first public questions—at the Buckhead Theatre Sept. 7.

The serpentine design curving above a half-mile of the highway in a series of bridges drew attention for its looks, and also for its estimated cost of $195 million to $245 million.

“I’m always in favor of more green space for Buckhead, if we can afford it,” said LivSee DESIGN on page 14

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North Atlanta High School girls’ varsity volleyball team, back, from left, Ashley Barbeire, Arielle Lestandie, Jenna Campbell and Chase Barber take on, from left, Cameron Dobbs, Becca Grady and Gabrielle Cerasoli from Landmark Christian School on Sept. 10 at Lovett School’s Wallace Gymnasium. The North Atlanta Warriors lost to the War Eagles two games out of three. See more photos on page 12.

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This exists to make sure we do not forget our heritage.

BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net Fifteen years after it was announced, the Peachtree Hills Place luxury senior housing development is nearing construction in the first quarter of 2017, according to developer Isakson Living. The developer is aiming for a 2019 opening.

The large project—201 condos and 12 single-family custom houses on a 23-acre site at Peachtree Hills Avenue and Virginia Place— was announced in 2005, and in 2008 the

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“Although the hotels are both part of the Hilton family, there are differences beA new Hampton Inn hotel will start gotween the Hampton Inn and Hampton Inn ing up in Buckhead Place this month— & Suites brands,” said McKibbon spokesonly about a block person Krystin away from an exOlinski. “McKibisting, similarly bon Hospitality’s named Hampton Hampton Inn & that is undergoing Suites will fearenovation. ture a substantial McKibbon Hosnumber of suites pitality, a hotel dethat cater to a veloper and manmore long-term ager, recently business and leiannounced a consure traveler.” struction start on Buckhead the new Hampton Place, at the MCKIBBON HOSPITALITY Inn & Suites by HilA rendering of the Hampton Inn & northeast corSuites, slated to rise on Piedmont Road, ton Buckhead Place. ner of Piedmont just north of Peachtree Road.

The 186-room hoand Peachtree, tel will rise on a lot on Piedmont Road just is a mixed-use center with retail businessnorth of Peachtree Road. es, residences and an existing Hyatt Place The existing Hampton Inn by Hilton Athotel. The new Hampton Inn & Suites was lanta-Buckhead at 3398 Piedmont is only originally announced several years ago as about 950 feet away to the north, on the part of a larger mixed-use redevelopment same side of the street. part of the center that has scaled back.

Hilton Worldwide, the holding compaThe new hotel project still includes 5,000 ny that owns the Hampton Inn brand, said square feet of space for retail businesses or there’s market demand for two Hamptons. restaurants, according to McKibbon.

Efforts will be made to avoid customer “We have collaborated with McKibbon confusion, said Phil Cordell, Hilton Worldon this project for years and are excited wide’s global head of the Hampton brand. to finally see the project get started,” said A key difference is that the new Hampton Coro Realty Advisors’ president John Lunwill have “suites”— extended-stay rooms. deen, president of Coro Realty Advisors, “The new property offering suites will which manages Buckhead Place. “We think provide select rooms with additional space the Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton is the and amenities at a different price point perfect complement to our existing centhan the existing Hampton by Hilton propter.” erty, and will also target a different customMcKibbon manages several other Hiler base,” Cordell said. “We intend to proton and Hampton hotels in the Atlanta vide each of the property’s booking sites area, including the Hampton Inn by Hilton with clear directions and hotel informaAtlanta-Perimeter Center in Sandy Springs. tion to assist consumers as they research johnruch@reporternewspapers.net

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BY COLLIN KELLEY The Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods heard from the architect of the proposed Opportunity School District (OSD) as well as opponents of the plan during its Sept. 8 meeting.

Voters will decide whether to create the OSD, which requires a constitutional amendment to takeover chronically failing public schools statewide, by referendum on Nov. 8.

Erin Hames, credited with creating the plan while she was Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Legislative Affairs for Gov. Nathan Deal, outlined the details of the OSD and why it could help thousands of students in underperforming schools.

The OSD would create a new school district that would have its own superintendent appointed by the governor. Schools that have consistently fallen below 60 on the state accountability system for three consecutive years could be brought into the OSD. The accountability system measures every school on student achievement, growth and progress, and whether the school is closing the gap between the lowest performing students and the state average.

Schools are then given a score of 0 to 100.

Hames said there are currently 127 schools that meet the criteria for OSD, with 22 of those being in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) district. No more than 20 schools in any given year can be taken over by the state and the OSD is capped at having 100 schools.

Hames said the OSD was modeled on similar reforms created by Louisiana and Tennessee. All of New Orleans’ public schools were taken over by the state after Hurricane Katrina and converted to charter schools, she said.

“The improvements made in New Orleans are incredible,” Hames said. “An NPR [National Public Radio] study showed it’s the largest and fastest turnaround in the nation’s history, with graduation rates increasing by 19 percent.”

Under Georgia’s OSD, the state would have four options for underperforming schools: a full takeover; shared operation with a school’s local district; conversion to charter school; and, as a last resort, closing the school.

Former APS Board of Education member Cecily Harsch-Kinnane, an opponent of the OSD, said she believed the plan was well-intentioned, but was unnecessary.

Preferring the term “chronically struggling” schools, she said the Georgia Department of Education already has the power to help and questioned why a constitutional amendment was necessary.

Harsch-Kinnane also refuted the successes of Louisiana’s reform, stating that statistics show that New Orleans now has a high number of dropouts and that ACT BH

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OSD opponent Cecily Harsch-Kinnane, left, makes her case to the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods while APS Board of Education member Nancy Meister, center, and Erin Hames, the architect of the OSD plan for the governor, listen.

scores were so low kids can’t go to college.

“As a model, I wouldn’t say that Louisiana’s plan has been a raging success,” she commented.

Another opponent, Michelle Constantinides, said the OSD plan failed to address issues within the community where a failing school is located. “Are there medical needs? Are the kids coming to school hungry? Are they rested? I wish the governor would look at these issues as well,” she said.

“There’s one school in APS where 52 languages are spoken. How is that addressed?”

Harsch-Kinnane agreed, stating that a school cannot be fixed without fixing the community.

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New chapter of Sons of the American Revolution promotes history

BY JACLYN TURNER Millions of people are proud to be American, but only some can trace their lineage back to the patriots who risked everything to help America reach independence. The Sons of the American Revolution, an organization for male descendants of those patriots that helps to preserve the history, has a new chapter based in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs.

“This exists to make sure we do not forget our heritage,” said Dunwoody resident Shep Hammack, 72, the organizing president for the new Mount Vernon SAR chapter. The chapter, which has met since March, will receive its charter at a banquet Sept. 24 at Villa Christina in Brookhaven, and expects to have at least 60 members.

The SAR consists of 50 societies, 500 chapters and approximately 33,000 members. There are 32 chapters in Georgia.

The new local chapter’s name has a dual significance. “Mount Vernon” is the name of George Washington’s home in Virginia, and the name of a street connecting Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, the cities where most of the new chapter’s members reside.

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Hammack enrolled his grandsons in the SAR, but doesn’t expect them to be active unless they develop an interest.

“I’ve always been interested in history,” Hammack said of his interest in genealogy.

“I had known about my great-great grandfather who was in the Confederate army, and killed at the breakout [during the siege of] Petersburg [in Virginia]. I have a letter written by him to my great-grandfather, who was 3 at the time.”

“Ten years ago I decided to look further back,” he continued. “I joined SAR to prove the line. I wasn’t going to get very involved.

I just wanted to prove what I thought was true. But then the rest was history and I got involved.”

Hammack traced his ancestry back to a William Dugan, who was at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania.

Another member, Sandy Springs resident Don Hart, with the help of his wife Marlene’s interest in genealogy, traced his lineage to a great-grandfather (going back five “greats”). That ancestor was a captain of light horse cavalry; his six sons fought with him in the Revolutionary War. He

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Members of the Mount Vernon Chapter Colorguard in full uniform, from left, Geoff Oosterhoudt, Tom Chrisman, Bob McCleskey, Shep Hammack and Randy Pollard.

won a battle at Mask’s Ferry on the Peedee River at Wilmington, N.C. The SAR brotherhood works to perpetuate the memory of and records from the Revolutionary War through educating students, seeking out burial grounds of soldiers to give them a grave marking, and presenting a color guard for civic events, parades and other patriotic program.

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cornhusk and other items to teach the students about life during the 1700s.

SAR chapters are also active with Eagle Scouts, and offer scholarships at the chapter, state and national levels.

The SAR holds meetings once a month, and often invite speakers to give historical talks. The local chapter’s topics have included Christmas celebrations during Revolutionary times and the life of Baron Johann de Kalb, a war hero who was the namesake of DeKalb County. The Mount Vernon chapter meets on the second Tuesday of the month, with its next meeting taking place Oct. 11.

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A wide-ranging study of Pill Hill’s traffic and possible mitigation projects is underway, with results expected by mid-November.

Some officials are questioning how useful the study, conducted by KimleyHorn, will be, given its 90-day timeframe, small target area and inclusion of projects that remain on the planning board.

One state project that triggered the study, “managed lane” ramps along I-285 and Ga. 400, lacks any detailed plan.

But Yvonne Williams, president and CEO of the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts, which commissioned the study last month on behalf of the Medical Center’s institutions, said she believes there’s value in the study.

“The study will be identifying best opportunities to best relieve traffic,” she said, adding that Kimley-Horn has conducted many previous Pill Hill studies and has that background to draw on.

“There’s a lot of interest in the Medical Center area,” Williams said. “[Local institutions need] to make sure that we have a transportation grid that works…

It makes absolute sense that we [have] a complete transportation network.”

The study came out of an effort by Northside Hospital, which is footing the $100,000 bill, according to Williams.

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as such longstanding concepts as exsibilities under study are two giant tending Perimeter Center Parkway beramps going right through the interhind Emory Saint Joseph’s to Johnson change and an access-ramp system Ferry Road. where Ashford-Dunwoody Road meets The four-year reconstruction of the I-285. Some of those ideas got NorthI-285/Ga.400 interchange alongside side’s attention, Goldberg said.

Pill Hill, slated to begin in October, is “That conversation started the largthe elephant in the room. But Norther conversation about what can be side’s desire for a traffic study was trigdone to improve traffic in that area,” gered, Williams said, she said. by another, even lonThe complexiger-term state project ty and uncertainthere: “managed lanes,” ty of such proposals meaning separate lanes There’s a lot of interest are also getting atwith access limited in the Medical Center tention. At a recent by toll or vehicle type, Sandy Springs City which would be added area. [Local institutions Council briefing, to the interchange and need] to make sure that Bryant Poole, the asthe top-end Perimeter we have a transportasistant city managin general later. er for infrastruction grid that works…

Gov. Nathan Deal anture, likened the nounced funding for It makes absolute sense I-285/Ga.400 manthe managed lanes ear- that we [have] a complete aged lanes to “trylier this year, but de- transportation network. ing to stick a needle tails were scarce. Jill through a spaghetti Goldberg, the Georgia YVONNE WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT noodle.”

AND CEO OF THE PERIMETER CENDepartment of Trans- TER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS “We think that portation’s communithis [traffic study] cations manager, said scope should be exin a recent interview that the managed panded” to a larger area and a longer lanes must begin construction by 2026 timeframe, he said, noting the “devil is under the funding order, but that it is in the details.” too late to fold them into the current Goldberg agreed that the uncertainI-285/Ga.400 project. ty and timeframe means the Pill Hill “It’s not possible to do within the curstudy will be a “very broad stroke” done rent scope of the I-285/Ga.400 reconin an “extremely high-level” method. struction,” she said.

But it’s also just part of a package The lanes will have to be built latof new cooperative traffic planning for er and will require their own land acthe Medical Center. The three hospitals quisition and environmental review, and Sandy Springs are also working on among other complexities, Goldberg an agreement to conduct joint traffic said. GDOT knows that the current and parking plans, apparently for the interchange project won’t make the first time in their history. The activity managed lanes impossible, she said, follows Mayor Rusty Paul and the City but still hasn’t decided exactly where Council this summer expressing disthey will run. pleasure with the apparent lack of soAccording to the city of Sandy lutions for the booming Medical CenSprings, among the managed lane poster’s traffic.

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Linda Booth said her husband, a physician, loved the philosophy of hospice, of caring for a dying person that allows the patient and their family to enjoy their last months together in an environment that is gentle to all.

“He called [hospice care] a soft landing,” she said.

Dr. Arthur Booth was a general surgeon and a founder of Brookhaven-based Hospice Atlanta Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. A gala and fundraiser is set for Oct. 27 to commemorate the founders, who also include Marry Gellerstedt, Warren Jobe and late Eula Carlos.

As a surgeon who treated cancer patients for much of his career, Dr. Booth was intent on bringing hospice services to metro Atlanta in the mid-1980s after working with families in which a parent in each family died from the disease.

The daughter of one family was able to take a leave of absence from work and spend the last six months of her father’s life caring for him.

The daughter of the other family could not take off and had to travel often for her job. She asked Dr. Booth to check in on her mother when she was out of town. One day when he didn’t get an answer at the ill woman’s home, he went to the emergency room of the local hospital.

He found the daughter curled up on the bathroom floor.

“These two daughters loved their parents to the same degree,” Linda Booth said. “They deeply wanted to care for their parents.”

Dr. Booth began talking to patients and teamed up with his patient and friend, Eula Carlos, to open a hospice practice.

At first it was hard to convince doctors that they couldn’t always “pull a miracle out of a bag” and cure a terminally ill patient, Booth said.

“But once you got doctors to understand they were not giving up on a patient but helping them in that last phase

Making A Difference of life, they opened their billfolds and gave and gave,” to have the hospice center open, she said.

“Some people are only healed after death,” she said.

Many people are unsure of what hospice is exactly. Sandy Springs-based Visiting Nurse Health Services, a nonprofit health care organization of which Hospice Atlanta is an affiliate, states hospice is “a concept of care that emphasizes quality rather than quantity of life.”

The care extends to families as well as patients.

Without hospice care, families can sometimes get “caught up” in the care of a dying family member instead of spending the final months sharing memories, holding hands and being with each other, Booth said. Her husband wanted to give families that special time together. “[Death] is just another phase of life,” she said.

Dr. Booth had two strokes and battled cancer, but still kept “trucking along,” she said. After the couple retired in 2004 to South Carolina, he and another doctor

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“He truly believed everyone should leave the world a little better than they

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Dr. Booth died June 18 – at the hospice he helped create.

Linda Booth said her husband was a very religious man who looked for signs on what to do.

One day he told her that God told him he was “coming home.”

“He said he wanted to collect his soft landing,” she said.

An air ambulance brought him from South Carolina to Hospice Atlanta, to where it all began and to where it would also end.

Hospice Atlanta, located on Park Vista Drive, includes residential care, for those who may not be able to care for someone in their home, where Dr. Booth spent his last days.

He was able to hug a nurse he hired 20 years ago and share memories with the hospital staff he had worked with for so many years.

Family and friends came to visit him and hug, cry and laugh as he was cared for in the facility he helped build.

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Opinion / How can we help chronically failing schools?

In November, Georgia voters will decide Gov. Nathan Deal’s “Opportunity School District” plan for state takeover of public schools deemed chronically failing. Reporter Newspapers asked state Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody), who backs OSD, and state Sen. Elena Parent (D-Atlanta), who opposes it, for their arguments. For more about the OSD plan, see the Fall 2016 Education Guide in this issue.

OSD M EANS ‘ LO CALLY O WNED ’ SCHO O L IM PR O VEM ENTS

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BY REP. TOM TAYLOR

BY SEN. ELENA PARENT

In August, some Georgia students began a new school year with unrestrained excitement, knowing that education provides boundless potential to make their dreams a reality. Parents watched their kids board school buses, entrusting the future of those who are most precious to them, their children, to dedicated educators and administrators.

However, thoughts of limitless possibility do not reach all of Georgia’s children. This year, approximately 68,000 Georgia students had to take their seats in schools plagued by years of underachievement and failing performance because they live in certain attendance zones or ZIP codes.

At these schools, abysmal test scores, declining student achievement, and poor graduation rates don’t go unnoticed by students, their parents and the community. Yet these children are trapped, forced to endure the inadequacies of failing schools, without the financial means or institutional options to choose another path.

As a Georgia citizen and legislator, I feel responsible to these students and their parents. It is unacceptable to continue to hand over precious taxpayer funds to schools where failure has become the norm, knowing that these students must endure years of subpar instruction or drop out.

This November, Georgians will vote on the Opportunity School District (OSD) amendment to the Georgia Constitution, a giant step toward making success possible for all students. Passed with bipartisan support in the Georgia legislature, the OSD will finally allow for state intervention in persistently failing schools, those with three-plus years of failing performance.

The OSD allows for the state to partner with local communities to implement fresh approaches at these schools, approaches uniquely tailored to those students’ needs. Moreover, it provides intensive turnaround support to transform schools into environments where children are eager to be and where they know the education they receive helps them build happy, successful lives.

As an ardent supporter of local control, I am a firm believer that government that is closest to the people governs most effectively and efficiently. However, when local situations become desperate, we need to pledge community—Georgia—support. By engaging parents and community leaders in turnaround processes for schools, OSD would assure improvements have the best chance to be “locally owned” and take root.

Our state constitution guarantees public education for all of Georgia’s children. Greater than 50 percent of Georgia’s budget is appropriated to public education each year. Unfortunately, many DeKalb County schools could be the poster child for a status quo of failure. Today, only one-third of Georgia students read at grade level. Ignoring our failing schools and accepting the status quo isn’t an option.

It would be a mistake just to continue to direct more funds to failing operations and expect new and better results. I encourage those who think that poverty is the issue and that more funding is the solution to know there are schools with high poverty that have high achievement. They are doing something right.

Failing schools impact all Georgians. By passing the OSD amendment in November, voters will send a clear message that we can and must do better in Georgia. The future of our students and our state depends on it.

We have a problem with education in this state. We are failing many of our students, who leave unprepared for college, for tech schools, for life as an adult. It isn’t acceptable, and something needs to be done.

We agree on the problem. Where we disagree is the solution.

The argument for the Opportunity School District (OSD) is simple. Local school districts have run schools that have failed too many children, and the state should intervene if they can’t get their acts together. But intervene how?

The OSD constitutional amendment sets up a school district that would be entirely controlled by one superintendent appointed by the governor. There won’t be any school board. The public won’t have the opportunity to vote this superintendent out of office. This gives a lot of potential for unfettered change, but it also means the public has no assurance about what the path forward will be for these schools. “Trust us” is the message. But has the state shown itself to be worthy of that trust when it comes to education?

If one examines the list of schools that would currently be eligible for takeover if the constitutional amendment passes, one immediately notices something they share in common: They are all in high-poverty areas. We know that poor children often don’t get the same educational resources wealthier students do, even within the same district. And that’s not even mentioning burdens many poor children bring with them when they arrive at school every day: food insecurity, less access to health and dental care, transience, less parental availability.

But are these factors discussed by the Opportunity School District legislation? No. Further, allies of the OSD have shown little interest in discussing the fact that the state has underfunded education for years. For many, that makes the “trust us” nature of the proposal unappealing.

Supporters of OSD point to New Orleans, where the state similarly took control following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Georgia does not propose to take over almost an entire district or eliminate attendance zones, as was done in New Orleans. The OSD is therefore more similar to efforts in Tennessee, Michigan and the rest of Louisiana, where the results have been lackluster.

If we are going to have a systematic, focused plan for improving education in all of our schools, especially those that are failing, we need to stop chasing the latest fads—tons of testing, “school choice,” giving families public money to attend private schools, or believing in the magic of anything called a “charter.”

These are all Band-Aids for a problem that cries out for real system-wide reform.

What we need is a reinvigorated, talented teaching and administration force coming out of education schools that are first-rate and difficult to get into—which is not what we have today. We need to treat teaching like the critical profession it is and make sure we are attracting our best and brightest to the profession. We need the resources to get every child the support he or she needs to be a success in life.

If we were serious about improving education in Georgia, we would stop offering up platitudes and instead focus on what we know works.

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Tuck, tuck, loose?

I’m not exactly fashion-forward. My wardrobe is basically dictated by what I can find that fits me and is on sale, so it’s a limited collection. But there’s a trend I’ve noticed while window-shopping during lunchtime, and in fact, it’s been around and persistently gaining momentum for the last few years. It’s the half-tuck. You might know it by another name, as it’s the style formally known as the front-tuck.

You see, once upon a time, there were two ways to wear a shirt: 1) Tucked-in, or 2) Not. Then a new fashion crept upon the scene, persistently gaining momentum, until it earned its own name, i.e., the front-tuck. The front-tuck is a somewhat self-explanatory style that involves wearing a loose shirt and tucking-in only the front of it.

The front-tuck has a sister called the side-tuck, which is what happens when only one-half of a buttoned-down shirt is tucked-in.

Then the Tuck family grew and all kinds of tucks were born: the side-tuck, the back-tuck, the casual-tuck, the tighttuck, the loose-tuck, the twist-n-tuck, the wrap-n-tuck. And, as often happens in large families, people started calling these tucklings by the same name. So the front-tuck is also called the half-tuck or the casual-tuck, which leaves the halftuck with nothing to be called but the half-half-tuck, or the full gainer.

It took me a while to catch on. For the longest time, I noticed the “J. Crew” catalog models wearing their tops only partly tucked, and I actually thought they were advertising their belts.

But let’s get back to the front-tuck/ half-tuck, remembering all the while, of course, that I am not a stylist — I only watch them on YouTube. So I am not doling out fashion advice, I am merely passing along what I have gleaned. My understanding is that this sassy, part-in, part-out, noncommittal tuck is designed

to give your shirt a split personality (kind of like Superman when he takes off his glasses) by making it look professional in the front and all crazy in the back.

If you do it right, you have a neatly Robin Conte is a writer tucked bit of and mother of four who shirt somelives in Dunwoody. She where along can be contacted at the front of robinjm@earthlink.net. your jeans and a freeflowing fiesta of fabric elsewhere, which announces to everyone that you are NOT a geek, but a slave to fashion.

You might be wondering, how much tuck does a person tuck if a person could half-tuck? Rest assured that you can Google “mastering the half-tuck” and find a plethora of internet tutorials on how to achieve this casual, carefree look.

If, however, you google “back-tuck,” you will find videos of a gymnastic move.

It doesn’t work on me. I’m either allin or all-out. Oh, I tried. I watched the tutorials and worked with my forefinger and my cotton-blend fabric, spending way more time dressing myself than truly necessary, in an attempt to make my shirt display just the right amount of attitude. But I never arrived at “jaunty.” I only accomplished “disheveled.” I might make a belt-wink with my shirt, but that ends up sloppy, too.

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The developer has previously said that construction of this type of senior housing is based on pre-sales. The condos currently

Peachtree Hills Apartments were demolished to make way for it. But the project repeatedly stalled with the economic crash and a falling housing market.

In 2008, when the plans called for 275 units, Isakson Living pre-sold 150 of them before putting the project on hold during the recession. All buyers received a full refund, the company SPECIAL said at the time.

A rendering of the club and lodge proposed as part of the In 2011, the bank Peachtree Hills Place senior housing development.

BB&T filed a lawsuit against Isakson Living, alleging that the developer had failed start at about $700,000 for a 1,400-squareto repay $30.5 million in loans and interest foot, one-bedroom unit. for Peachtree Hills Place. That lawsuit was The development’s concept is luxuresolved last year, according to Kevin Isakry housing and services for people 55 and son, the developer’s director of sales and older, including memory care, assisted livmarketing. ing and skilled nursing along with typical Isakson Living recently announced the housing. Amenities would include a clubproject is moving forward once again and house, dining facilities, a fitness and wellthat roughly half of the units in the first ness center, security and transportation.

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One idea was using sponsored mural art instead of ads.

The current deal will bring Bigbellies without ads, but also without art. Instead, Bigbelly will be paid $153.42 per station per month, according to CID Executive Director Jim Durrett, while the art idea remains a possibility.

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“We don’t have answers to how it’s going to be funded.”

The Buckhead Community Improvement District, a self-taxing business district, has discussed the possible park for years and commissioned the current proposal from Rogers Partners Architects + Urban Designers. The idea is to provide more green space in central Buckhead.

Robert M. Rogers from Rogers Partners presented the designs of the 9-acre linear park over Ga. 400 as a way to make strategic connections to enhance the life of the district. The park would span from Lenox Road to Peachtree Street, connecting MARTA’s Buckhead station between the Atlanta Financial Center and Lenox Road/ Buckhead Loop. There would be connections with two MARTA stations and the PATH400 multi-use trail and park system.

The park would be built atop a series of

relative slender bridges, rather than a tunnel completely capping the highway. That would be easier to build, Rogers said.

The park would consist of three parts: a “Garden,” a “Plaza” and a “Commons” area bisected by a line of trees for shade. The garden would be a more intimate space for public art, strolling and picnicking. The plaza would have space for a big screen, gatherings and food trucks. The Commons would include an amphitheater and space for outdoor sports and activities.

Many residents attending the session expressed concern about funding, park safety and traffic.

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No funds for the park are in place. The CID hopes to seek money from both the public and private sector, including federal, state and city money.

As for traffic, the CID hopes to use materials that can be created offsite and installed to minimize traffic on one of the metro area’s busiest roadways. No additional parking would be created for the park, with hopes that visitors would use

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The CID is accepting public input on the park proposal, and its board eventually will vote on whether to move ahead with further design and construction. That could happen as early as the board’s October meeting, according to the CID website.

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Thursday, Sept. 22, 1-4 p.m. Friends of the Dunwoody Library hold a book sale, with opening hours for members only. Free admission. Public is welcome from 4-8 p.m., and also on Sept.

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WARBIRD WEEKEND Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. A squadron of World War II fighter aircraft descends upon DeKalb-Peachtree Airport! Program celebrates 75th anniversary of the American Volunteer Group, nicknamed the “Flying Tigers.” Free admission. Parking, $10. Continues Sept. 25, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. NOT an air show; display, rides and history only. 2000 Airport Rd., Atlanta, 30341. For additional information, go to: atlantawarbirdweekend.com or call 404202-9348.

PLAY GOLF Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Play some golf and support the Riverwood International Charter School’s Junior football program. Shotgun start followed by lunch at 12 p.m. $125 per player; $500 foursomes; lunch only, $50. North Fulton Golf Course, 216 West Wieuca Rd., Atlanta, 30342. Register or see details: jrraidergolftourney.com. Call Rob Drew at 404-317-2800 with questions.

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1300 block of Northside Dr. NW – On Aug. 27 in the morning, the victim told police he was sleeping in his vehicle when a male suspect approached. He said the suspect pointed a gun at him and demanded that he surrender his cash. The victim said he fled the scene and the suspect stole his iPhone 6.

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Sept. 1 in the evening at a Metro PCS store, a man told police a male suspect entered the store and said, “This is a robbery,” and told everyone to get on the floor. The suspect was given two Metro PCS bags with $600 in them. The male fled the location. Surveillance footage captured a picture of the suspect. Latent fingerprints were collected and submitted as evidence.

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Antwain Wolfork, 21, of 1431 Blyss Ave. NW, was apprehended by the APD’s Fugitive Unit in the early morning hours of Sept. 8 and has been charged with one count of home invasion and two counts of burglary with intent to commit a felony.

“It was discovered that he used a very detailed, but fake replica of an AK-47 to commit these crimes,” according to an APD press release.

Wolfork also faces charges in a violent Brookhaven home invasion on Aug. 3 in the 1700 block of Clairmont Way in which he shot the suspect in the arm.

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“The way we tied him to the Atlanta incidents was through physical evidence found in his home,” Nino said. He declined to say what the evidence was.

Nino said the Brookhaven suspect matched the description of the Buckhead suspect who could be seen on surveillance cameras in Buckhead.

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EDUCATION GUIDE Theater offers a part in ‘the ultimate group project’

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Sam Reed, left, a student at The Galloway School in Sandy Springs, rehearses for “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged,” in the school’s Chaddick Theater on Sept. 8.

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For some local high schoolers, plays really are the thing

Farm-to-cafeteria: Schools provide fresh local produce for lunch

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It says something about a high school class when a fire alarm goes off and nobody races gleefully for the door.

Pace Academy theater teacher Sean Bryan said his “entire class moaned in great frustration” when a fire drill sounded during a recent acting class. His students were

doing their daily warmup — mimicking the leader of the moment in interpreting music through movement.

“They were frustrated because they were having a blast,” Bryan said.

On top of that, darn it, they had to put their shoes back on.

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Here’s some food for thought: For thousands of metro Atlanta schoolchildren, the proverbial apple-a-day may come from just around the corner, thanks to a national farm-to-school initiative.

In fact, healthy produce on the school lunch menu could be sprouting from as

close as a school garden that students help maintain and harvest, within a few hours’ drive on a Georgia farm or a stone’s throw regionally, in Florida or North Carolina.

Since 2011, the school nutrition programs in the DeKalb and Fulton systems have participated in the National Farm to See FARM on page 14

TURNAROUND STRATEGIES Challenges for public schools

FAILING SCHOOLS Gov. Deal proposes state takeover

BACK-TO-SCHOOL COSTS Expect to pay more

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Pace began offering Upper School acting classes for the first time with Bryan’s arrival last school year. It joins other local high schools in taking theater far beyond the realm of just an after-school activity.

Theater programs are growing at some area schools, despite education’s love affair with STEM, a curriculum that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math.

Schools such as North Springs Charter High School have jumped on the “Picking Up STEAM (STEM+ A for Arts)” train, with Travis Chapman working as their full-time coordinator on the trending national initiative. STEAM recognizes that technical success requires creativity and critical thinking skills best developed through exposure to the arts, Chapman said.

Theater, for example, is the ultimate group project.

“There are so many tasks to be done to get to the final product, which is opening night,” Bryan said. “We have technical students, musicians, actors, assistant directors ... Everyone can’t be Dorothy [in the “Wizard of Oz”], but we still need to find a crystal ball for the Wicked Witch of the West.”

Megan Cramer, the new Upper Learning theater teacher at The Galloway

School, has worked as associate artistic director of New York City’s 52nd Street Project, a nonprofit that connects inner-city kids with theater professionals. She said students have told her theater enhanced their presentation skills and taught them a lot about themselves and others.

“The students can come together to work on a project and be able to present it to human beings in a space and in a moment that they share together,” Cramer said, “That’s so rare right now.”

And it’s valued. Upper Learning students can earn class credit for working on school shows, she said.

David Gay, a 25-year teacher in his second year at Dunwoody High School, said his theater classes prepare students who want to become professionals, but offer something for everyone.

“You can act, build a set, work on a light board or a sound board,” Gay said. “For some people, this is an outlet where they find acceptance, community and family.”

Raina Williams was feeling her way as a new freshman at Pace last year when a friend talked her into auditioning for the musical “Legally Blonde.”

“I froze and I freaked out,” Williams said. “I didn’t even go back the next day for

Myron Parker, North Springs Charter High School

Celine Lagrange, Riverwood International Charter School

“Honestly, I never intended to join my school theater department because I didn’t think it would benefit me in my film career.

But after getting involved in the classes, I’ve learned that theater is the foundation of any form of acting. Through three years of active participation in the productions, I’ve obtained many skills I would never have been able to develop on my own, and have learned how to appreciate the craft on a much deeper level.”

“I enjoy taking part in theater for more than the fact that I love acting. In the beginning of my high school career, I was too scared to perform in front of others.

Thanks to my experiences in theater my freshmen year, I grew more confident. Now I keep returning to perform at my high school because of all the friends I’ve made. Returning for a new production is like attending a family reunion.”

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the second part of the audition.”

Somehow, Bryan saw potential behind the panic and cast Williams in non-speaking roles in that musical and others. She’s also worked props.

“I just fell in love with the singing, dancing and the whole backstage thing of being in musicals,” Williams said. “There are costume changes, props that need to be distributed, managers keeping you on task. It’s like magic. I don’t know how it happens.”

Williams has landed her first speaking role in the play “A Piece of My Heart,” the production to be staged at Pace this fall, and said theater has helped her manage stress.

“Anyone can do theater and everyone should,” she said. “It has made me a happier person because it’s kind of an alternative way to express how I feel. It’s really like, for

Raina Williams, Pace Academy “I do theater because I simply can’t stop doing theater. When I decided to become involved in theater last year, I pictured us running around the stage as wild animals or meditating to get into to character. But theater is not that abstract concept I had in my mind; it’s about portraying human emotions in the most realistic way possible. Once I realized the simplicity of it, theater became the avenue for my emotions. Having that release has made me a happier person and that — and the fact that it’s fun — is why I do theater.

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Bryan said theater also forces students to develop empathy as they step into another character’s perspective.

Jon Tyler Owens, who teaches theater at North Springs Charter High School, reflected on the intimacy of live theater. “When you’re in a room with a good actor of a good company of actors, it can be a transcending

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experience,” Owens said. “It can be kind of a game changer about how you view experiences, without the filter of a lens, which adds a separation.”

Theater changed the game big-time for Galloway senior Isabella Swaak, who said she used to be “super shy.” “I felt like an outcast. I was taller than everyone, not as skinny as everyone,” she said.

But after playing a sassy role in “The Little Mermaid” years ago, Isabella worked to take on some of the traits she admired about her character. She learned to love her body and became more self-confident, she said, stepping away from a recent rehearsal for “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).”

At Dunwoody, Gay almost can’t talk about theater without bringing up DHS’ competitive speech team, which he started.

“I tell students (speech) will change you,” said Gay, a “Triple-Diamond coach” in the

Reed Stewart, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School “I started out in theater because I wasn’t very competitive in sports and I wanted to be involved in a community that included people from other grades. I fell in love with theater from the first rehearsal because it was an environment that I could truly be myself. I wasn’t afraid to act silly and let go because I was and still continue to be surrounded by people that accept me for who I am. I have never been an outspoken person or a public speaker, but on stage I am able to overcome my fear of public speaking and step into a character for hours at a time. “

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D: Dunwoody High School Music Director Mark Lamback, at piano, leads the school’s theater group through rehearsal of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on Sept. 8.

E: From left, Steff Rinzler, Isabella Swaak, top, Derrick Bass, and Cole Smith, right, practice during “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged” at The Galloway School on Sept. 8.

F: Natalie Peek and Carlos Obregon get into character for Riverwood’s upcoming “Lend Me a Tenor” production.

G: Chloe Kahn sings during rehearsal for Dunwoody High School’s play opening Oct. 20.

H: Abby Vogelsang gives it her all in front of other Galloway theater students.

Blake Rosen, The Weber School “There is nothing as cathartic as live theatre. Engaging in an ensemble in every show makes me feel accepted for who I am, and working with the cast and crew at my high school provides unforgettable memories and learning experiences I will keep with me for the rest of my life.”

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Senior Patrick Clinch joined the team last year and became a national qualifier in the finals for humorous interpretation.

Clinch is one of the leaders of Dunwoody’s improv troupe, which performs monthly. He said theater has been a great way to burn off some of his pent-up energy, and it has made him feel confident about his ability to present and perform before audiences.

“It can be difficult to be in high school, where there are a lot of social stratifications,” Clinch added. “Theater brings people together in a very unique way.”

At North Springs, which has magnet programs in math/sciences and visual/ performing arts, Owens teaches an acting track and Joel King teaches a technical theater track. They stage three main productions a year. Their program’s motto: “We don’t do high school shows. We do professional shows with high school students.”

They always do understudy shows of their productions, exposing more students to audiences. One of these shows became a defining moment for North Springs senior Myron Parker, who plays a slave named “Miles” in the PBS series “Mercy Street.”

Emily Brothman, North Springs Charter High School “The theater program offers me an opportunity for self-expression that I am not otherwise provided in school. The performing arts are truly amazing because they not only allow people to challenge their creativity and become open to new ideas, but also have fun while doing so.”

Parker said he started high school as a cocky film actor who didn’t think theater could do much for him. He signed up after he heard other actors talking about its benefits.

By junior year he was getting lead roles in school plays “and not thinking about it hard,” Parker said.

So he was stunned after he auditioned for a part in Henrik Ibsen’s play “Hedda Gabler” to find that not only was he cast as an understudy, it wasn’t even for a lead part.

“I was very much devastated,” Parker said. “It was a really humbling experience.”

But Parker said he “sucked it up,” and plunged into his character, “decoding” Ellert Lovborg until he understood him completely.

In the end, the understudy show was “one of the most powerful performances that I’ve ever seen,” Parker said. “People in the audience were crying. That’s an experience I think I’ll take throughout my entire life.”

His theater teacher, who studied Shakespeare in the United Kingdom as a Fulbright scholar, had always said he never wanted to teach high school students. But Owens’ need for a job coincided with an opening at North Springs five years ago.

After a “horrible” first year, Owens said he has grown to appreciate a job he doesn’t plan to leave anytime soon.

“There’s something really special about watching these kids develop,” he said.

“Sometimes they make me so mad, but sometimes they make me so proud I’ve got tears in my eyes.”

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Nov. 5 and 6 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Lademacher Performing Arts Center Tickets: $20 for adults; $15 for students

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Oct. 20, 21, 22 at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. in the Msgr. Terry Young Center Auditorium on campus Tickets: $7 Nov. 10, 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. in the Tom King Theater

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BY COLLIN KELLEY Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Meria Carstarphen said she expects the 2016-17 school year to be one of the system’s most challenging as it continues to rebuild from the cheating scandal and faces some of its facilities being taken over by the state for underperformance.

When residents go to the polls in November, they will vote on creating the Opportunity School District (OSD), which would allow the state to take over chronically failing schools.

There are more than 20 APS schools that fall into that designation.

Carstarphen promised last year that she would make aggressive moves to transform APS, which include shuttering some schools and putting others under the management of charter school groups. She said that pay parity for educators, facility quality, security and working to turn around the overall culture of APS was part of the strategy.

One thing is for sure: APS is not going back, but forward.

“Perhaps the major problem with APS in the past is that it was not child centered, but adult oriented,” Carstarphen said. “There was so much bureaucracy, so much politics. We lost our core purpose.”

Since her arrival two years ago, Carstarphen has spent much of her time on the job “rebuilding and fixing problems that were never addressed,” including a $30 million proposition to arrive at pay parity for teachers. Replacing teachers and administrators with the best and brightest has been a hallmark of Carstarphen’s time at APS. She said it’s all part of rebuilding APS’s integrity.

“You can’t talk about the future if you don’t fix the past,” Carstarphen said.

Carstarphen said she is hopeful that recent comments by Gov. Nathan Deal will keep APS schools out of state hands if the OSD measure passes. “Gov. Deal said meeting achievement targets is the fastest way to get off the OSD radar, but if a school district is showing progress, that might also prevent a takeover.”

However, Carstarphen is also realistic.

“We’re not going to hit those targets immediately,” she said. “You can’t make a 30-percentage point gain in test scores without cutting corners, and we’re not going back to those days.”

Another significant change for APS is the creation of its own police force. Carstarphen said the police department was another component of shifting the culture at APS. “The idea is to rethink a school model that goes beyond physical safety and adds a component of emotional safety,” Carstarphen commented. “The concept is that the officers are not only enforcing laws, but counseling and mentoring children as well.”

The new APS police force has a chief of police and 68 officers, who have been trained specifically by grade level, and will work with students to prevent bad behavior and decisions before they happen.

“If we want to break the pampers to prison pipeline for black and brown kids, which is really an issue in APS, we have to have people who do the preventive work so the bad decisions never happen,” Carstarphen said. “I don’t want our kids to fear the police, I want them to respect police. They need to have a school environment where the police are seen as an ally and not an enemy.”

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Voters to decide whether state should take over ‘failing’ schools

BY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWIS Voters across Georgia soon will decide whether the state should be allowed to take control of chronically failing public schools.

Under a proposed constitutional amendment on November ballots, schools that receive an “F” rating from the state Department of Education for three years in a row could be temporarily assigned to a new “Opportunity School District” (OSD).

Already, there is a list of schools eligible for state takeover under Gov. Nathan Deal’s proposed plan. It currently includes 127 Georgia schools from 21 school systems. Two schools along metro Atlanta’s northern arc are on the list — DeKalb County’s Montclair and Woodward elementary schools, both lo-

state the authority to more effectively provide support and to remove barriers to students’ success.

A group called Georgia Leads on Education is promoting the measure with a video that says it “preserves quality education for kids in good schools and creates new educational opportunity for less fortunate children who need it most.”

But the amendment is vigorously opposed by some major teacher and parent organizations.

The Georgia Association of Educators calls it a “serious executive over-reach by the governor,” saying the OSD threatens the stability of local schools and undermines local control of the community. The Georgia PTA sys the amendment is flawed

Montclair Elementary School in Brookhaven, considered a chronically failing school, is on the list for a state takeover.

cated in Brookhaven.

Overall, about half of the schools eligible for takeover are in metro Atlanta, with 28 in DeKalb County, 22 in the city of Atlanta and 10 in south Fulton County. Several state charter schools in Atlanta and DeKalb are also on the list.

Some schools on have closed or merged with others since the list was published.

Deal’s proposal would allow the state to add up to 20 failing schools to the OSD each year, with a cap of no more than 100 schools in a district at a time. The state could share or completely assume management of the schools, convert them to charter schools, or close them.

The OSD plan, developed after a study of similar programs in Louisiana and Tennessee, says the district would be led by a superintendent who is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate. The superintendent would report directly to the governor.

The OSD or OSD charter school governing board would decide whether school employees would keep their positions. Employees not retained after the takeover would continue as employees of their local boards of education, which would decide whether to keep or release them.

Dean’s proposal says it would give the

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“It is unclear if this amendment is designed to improve education for Georgia’s children, or designed to convert more schools to charter schools with for-profit management companies,” PTA leaders wrote in a letter to elected officials. “While we firmly believe that the state should provide assistance to our children in struggling schools, the root cause of many issues in education is poverty.”

All of the currently takeover-eligible schools have high rates of poverty, according to the state.

Brookhaven’s Woodward and Montclair elementary schools have an additional challenge in meeting state guidelines.

Most of the children at both of schools are in the system’s ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) program.

Schools on the state’s takeover-eligibility list scored below 60 on a 100-point scale for three consecutive years on the qualifying measure, the College and Career Ready Performance Index.

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After The Galloway School abandoned its controversial effort to build a new softball complex in Sandy Springs, the school this summer struck a deal with Pace Academy to buy softball and baseball facilities on Warren Road in north Atlanta.

“Our purchase of the Warren Road property fulfills the needs that we have at this time for additional athletics facilities to support softball and baseball,” Galloway spokeswoman Claire Horn said in an email.

The complex at 2465 Warren Road includes a field and practice facilities for softball and baseball, and is located near the existing Galloway sports complex on Defoors Ferry Road, the school announced. Galloway opened its new sports complex on August 17 with a win by the varsity softball team, who beat North Atlanta High School 9 to 1.

Last year, Galloway proposed building a softball facility on High Point Road in Sandy Springs, but the plan met strong opposition from neighbors. In January, Galloway withdrew the proposal.

Pace says it will use the money from the sale to build new, state-of-the-art softball and middle-school baseball facilities at its Riverview Sports Complex, located at 5700 Riverview Road in Cobb County. Construction of the new facilities should be completed by late winter 2016, the school said in a press release.

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Whether featuring regionally grown produce each month, setting up raised garden beds or potted plants on school campuses, or learning about agriculture and the food journey in the classroom, metro Atlanta schoolchildren are getting a better understanding of nearby food sources and healthy eating choices. “‘Farm to School’ is a national initiative that connects school students to local farmers,” said Joyce R. Wimberly, executive director of School Nutrition Services, DeKalb County School System, in an email.

“This program supports the department’s mission to promote lifetime wellness to DeKalb County students and staff by serving meals that are high quality, nutritious, enjoyable and economical.”

National interest in farm-to-school efforts has been increasing, according to the USDA’s Farm to School Program page.

In 2013-2014, school districts responding to the department’s Farm to School Census purchased almost $800 million in local food from farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and food processors and manufactur-

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Cheri Mills, center, teaches students at Woodland Elementary School in Sandy Springs about acquatic gardens on Sept. 5.

ers, a 105 percent increase over the amount of local food bought in the 2011-2012 school year, when the first such census was conducted, the government organization said.

Nationally, 42 percent of school districts responding to the 2015 census have farmto-school programs in place (as of the 20142015 school year) with another 16 percent having plans to start in the future, according to the website.

In Dunwoody, Austin, Chesnut, Dunwoody, Kingsley and Vanderlyn elementary schools, Peachtree Middle School and Dunwoody High School take part in the Farm to Table program. In Brookhaven, Cross Keys High School and Ashford Park, Montclair, Montgomery, Kittredge and Woodward elementary schools are on board. And in Sandy Springs, all 11 schools in the city are involved in the program, according to the Fulton County school district.

“The program has been very well received,” Wimberly said. “Success is measured by the number of students and staff that try the highlighted Farm to School item each month. Students look forward to the monthly items and the opportunity to taste-test different foods.” Students aren’t just learning about where their food comes from.

Ruth Taylor, coordinator, School Nutrition Program at Fulton County Schools, said some schools take field trips to local farms so kids can actually see for themselves, or incorporate agricultural lessons into the curriculum. At schools with gardens, students are actually involved in maintaining and harvesting produce, further making a connection between the source of their food and the meals on their plates.

DeKalb County purchases produce from a local produce vendor. Wimberly said seven different farms were used in school year 2015-2016 to supply the Farm to School produce — apples from Mercier Orchards in Blue Ridge; strawberries from Mathews Farm in Baxley; peaches from Taylor Or-

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Aila Courtenay, a second grader at Woodland Elementary School, inspects her Swiss chard that is ready to plant. The school offers a STEM environmental science program, which includes 23 raised garden beds, fruit trees and an acquatic garden containing tilapia.

chards in Reynolds; squash, cucumbers, peppers and cabbage from Moore & Porter in Thomasville, and from Baker Farms and JR Baker Farms, both in Norman Park; and broccoli and kale from Spring Hill Farms in Tifton.

Featured produce from Georgia farms in Fulton County schools during 2015-2016 included hydro bibb lettuce from StoneCreek Hydroponics in Hartwell; kale from Herndon Country Farms, Vidalia; cabbage from Southern Valley Fruit & Vegetable, Norman Park; Georgia blueberry juice from Southern Press & Packing in Blackshear; and Georgia cucumbers from Southern Valley in Norman Park. Fulton County schools also get produce from farms in North Carolina and Florida.

In the DeKalb system, some Brookhaven/Dunwoody area schools have gardens, including: Chesnut Elementary; Montgomery Elementary; Dunwoody Elementary; Austin Elementary; Peachtree Middle; and Ashford Park Elementary.

Forty Fulton County schools have their own gardens, including Heards Ferry Elementary School and Woodland Charter Elementary School. Taylor said the initiative also includes animal and dairy.

On the nutrition program side of the lunch table in Fulton, Taylor said there’s encouragement to work with cafe managers to partner with the school gardens. “In that way we can feature those things and incorporate those in school menus,” she said.

“Students can see it from start to finish,” Taylor said. “They’ve held the plant, they grow it, they nurture it, harvest it. They see the cafe at workers prepare it,” Taylor said.

“What we know is, when you have that experience as a student, you’re so much more likely to want to try that fresh fruit or vegetable. You see that complete cycle for those students. Anytime we can get that experiential learning, we see that impact on the students.”

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