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Dog park fans pack council meeting

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Family ties Apron strings bring loved ones together COMMENTARY 9

BY JOE EARLE

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Keep truckin’

More than 100 supporters of the dog park in Brook Run packed Dunwoody City Council’s meeting Nov. 12 to protest plans to move the dog park.

Dozens in the standing-room-only crowd wore red articles of clothing to show opposition toward the city’s intention to relocate the park to a different part of Brook Run. Many in the crowd carried signs supporting the park or criticizing the city. Some brought dogs, which remained in the parking lot outside City Hall during the meeting.

Dunwoody resident Robert Moss carried a sign that said, “The dog park isn’t broken. Do not spend money to change it.”

Moss said he lives about a half mile from the park and goes there regularly with his golden retriever, Mattie.

“I have so much enjoyment and pleasure

Food ‘on wheels’ extremely popular COMMUNITY 10

Empty shelves Food banks feel pinch of economic slowdown MAKING A DIFFERENCE 13

Center circle Labyrinths making comeback at local churches

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Council elections reveal divided city

BY JOE EARLE

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Clare Smale watches as her son Marcus, 3, learns about archaeology during an interactive “We Love Our Library Day” program at the Dunwoody branch on Nov. 2. The annual event helps encourage children to read. More photos on page 25.

Dunwoody’s cranky 2013 election season ended by returning two incumbents to Dunwoody City Council, where they’ll be joined by a critic of the council.

Councilman Doug Thompson, who won re-election to the District 3, Post 3 seat with 51 percent of the vote, said on election night that the Nov. 5 election results showed voters were sharply divided on a number of issues. Fellow incumbent Councilman Denis Shortal collected 58 percent of the vote in his race.

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MARTA’s future plans may impact areas east of Ga. 400

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Sandy Springs and Dunwoody offito convince MARTA officials to move cials are starting to pay close attention as the line back to the west side of Ga. 400.

MARTA takes a new look at mass transit Rep. Mike Jacobs (R-Brookhaven), north of the Chattahoochee River. who chairs the Legislature’s MARTA Don Boyken, chairman of the Dunbudget oversight committee, said the woody Chamber of Commerce, told agency should stick to its prior agreemembers of the Dunwoody Homeownments. ers Association on Nov. 3 “it’s not too “If an understanding was reached early” to start lobbying the transit agenwith the community, MARTA should cy over its plans to extend the rail line honor it, regardless of the passage of north from the North Springs station. time,” Jacobs said in an email.

Boyken said a The reason MARnew MARTA study TA is looking at a rail shows the rail line to line east of Ga. 400 the east of Ga. 400, is simple: cost. Sidiwhich means neighfall said each crossing borhoods in Sandy of Ga. 400 is projectSprings and Duned to add “a few hunwoody would be in dred thousand dollars” the path of constructo the cost. If the train tion. Two decades or crosses to the west side so ago, local officials of Ga. 400, it will at convinced MARTA some point have to reto build on the west turn to the east side, side of Ga. 400, he she said. said, but those plans “It is still possi“We as Dunwoody and have been set aside ble to go on the west and are to be replaced Sandy Springs need to talk side,” she said. “It is by new ones. to MARTA to get them to go more expensive. And “We as Dunwhen you’re looking back to the [old] plan.” woody and Sanon the national scale, dy Springs need to competing with Porttalk to MARTA to land and Dallas and – DON BOYKEN get them to go back New York and othCHAIRMAN OF THE DUNWOODY to the [old] plan,” er cities, cost is a big CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Boyken said. thing.”

MARTA officials MARTA officials two years ago began presented the plans again examining ways to provide future to Sandy Springs City Council on Oct. mass transit to Fulton County residents 1, and council members agreed a prowho live north of the river. Janide Sidiposed Northridge station should be cut fall, project manager for MARTA, said from the plan, according to city records. the agency said “had to start back at zero “The plan shows a station being loin 2011.” cated at Northridge on the east side of MARTA is examining three options: Ga. 400,” city spokeswoman Sharon bus rapid transit, light rail, and extendKraun said in an email. “Councilman ing the current heavy rail line north [John] Paulson spoke against having a from Sandy Springs. The agency is constation on the east side, where there is sidering adding stations at Northridge a school, office and residential. He sugRoad, Holcomb Bridge Road, Mansell gested extending along the west side.”

Road, North Point Mall, Old Milton Councilwoman Karen Meinzen Parkway and Windward Parkway.

McEnerny said she did not agree that Preliminary estimates show the bus the station should be removed from the option is expected to cost about $460 plan, but agreed that is should be west million, compared to $1.8 billion for of Ga. 400. light rail and $1.6 billion for heavy rail, “I agree with the council that it canSidifall said. The heavy rail option is not be on the east side adjacent to sevcheaper than light rail, she said, because eral ‘protected neighborhoods,’” she said it extends the current line. in an email. “But to pass on an opporBoyken said residents of Alpharetta, tunity to have it on the west side is ludiRoswell and other Fulton County citcrous in the long run ... . The west side ies north of the river support the plan. has commercial areas and infrastructure “Folks north of the river are very much (sidewalks) connecting it to the many in favor of this line,” Boyken told DHA nearby apartments and Roswell Road.” board members. “They’ve been sitting in The Sandy Springs council did not traffic for years.” take a formal vote on the proposal. SidDuring the DHA meeting, state Sen. ifall said additional public meetings Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody) said he and could be scheduled soon. “Hopefulother members of the community’s legly, we’ll get some folks out from Dunislative delegation would weigh in to try woody this time,” she said.

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Plans for the 5-acre park in the Georgetown area include two playgrounds, an amphitheater, picnicking spots and a large, open field.

Residents can weigh in on new park plan on Nov. 19

BY JOE EARLE

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Plans for a new 5-acre city park include two playgrounds, an amphitheater, an area for picnicking and a large, open field.

Brent Walker, city parks and recreation manager, said the planned park at Shallowford Road and Pernoshal Court was designed to offer a number of things residents said they wanted during public meetings to discuss the city’s parks and recreation programs.

“We’ve tried to squeeze all those desires into one concept design,” Walker told members of Dunwoody City Council during their Nov. 12 meeting.

“We think we’ve hit all the buttons.”

Residents will have a chance to look over the plans and comment on them Nov. 19 during a city open house at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 4755 North Peachtree Road. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. A brief presentation on the development plans for the park is scheduled for 7:15 p.m, the city said in a press release.

The city said residents unable to attend the meeting may email comments on the park concept to parks@dunwoodyga.gov.

The 5-acre park is part of the city’s Project Renaissance development, a project intended to provide public parks, housing and shops in the Georgetown area of the city.

Several council members welcomed the proposal, but some suggested tweaks.

Councilman Denny Shortal asked how close the playing fields were to homes planed in the area. Told they were about 50 feet, Shortal said that might be too close. “Something has to be done to put in some type of sound barrier, a buffer,” he said.

Councilman John Heneghan suggested adding a basketball court. The park plan now includes a multi-use court which can be used for basketball and other sports.

And Councilman Doug Thompson said the park should be a place for active recreation.

“I’m looking at this park as a place people go to play or to go sweat – sports, that sort of thing,” he said. “My fear is we will let this thing evolve more into a passive park. My vision is, ‘Let’s get out there and sweat.’”

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Olens: Trade Atlanta’s second airport for Tennessee water

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Metro Atlanta’s water problems could be addressed by striking a deal, allowing Chattanooga to claim a second Atlanta airport in return for water from the Tennessee River, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens told Dunwoody business leaders.

“Sooner or later, we need to look at a second airport. Chattanooga wants to be that second airport. I’m interested in helping them be that second airport in return for one hell of a pipe into Georgia,” Olens said, answering a question on how Georgia could get a share of water from the Tennessee River to supplement the Chattahoochee River as metro Atlanta’s chief water supply.

Olens told the more than 75 chamber members attending the organization’s 2013 Fall Gala at LeeBrant Jewelers on Nov. 7 that negotiations over water from the Tennessee River should be political, not legal, actions.

“This is a really good issue for a second-term governor, and it’s a really good issue for other state’s second-term governor,” said Olens, who chaired the Cobb County Commission and the Atlanta Regional Commission before becoming attorney general.

Besides, he said, Georgia already was embroiled in lawsuits with South Carolina and Florida, so it might not be wise to engage in legal action against Tennessee. “I need free passage to at least one state,” he joked.

Olens said enforcement of tougher state laws against “pill mills” is making a difference in Georgia.

Olens said that after Florida tightened its laws dealing with prescription drugs, problems spilled into Georgia.

“We went from 10 to 140 pill mills in the course of two years in our state,” he said. “This was going right up the interstate. It was drug dealing.”

Jester enters race for state school superintendent

BY MELISSA WEINMAN

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Former DeKalb school board member Nancy Jester announced that she will run for Georgia school superintendent.

Jester, who represented Dunwoody and Brookhaven in District 1 for the DeKalb County Board of Education, said she is running to reform education in Georgia. She made her announcement Nov. 11 at Brook Run Park.

“More classroom, less bureaucracy.

That’s what Georgians deserve and that’s what they’ll get from me,” Jester said.

Jester said she would like for Georgia to spend less money on administration.

She said Georgia spends more per pupil than many neighboring states, such as Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas, yet has a lower high school graduation rate.

“That has to stop,” Jester said. “Bureaucrats do not teach children.”

Jester left the DeKalb school board in

March after she and four other school board members were suspended by Gov. Nathan Deal. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools placed the DeKalb County School System on accreditation probation.

Jester says it was her own investigation of the system’s budgeting practices that led to the accreditation agency’s involvement. “I’m really proud of my record,” Jester said. “I uncovered financial malfeasance in DeKalb.”

She said she was willing to sacrifice her seat on the school board because, “it wasn’t about me.”

“It demonstrates my commitment to telling the truth to taxpayers,” Jester said.

Republicans Richard Woods, Fitz Johnson and Matt Shultz are also running for the seat. State Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan is the only Democrat in the race.

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woody,” Thompson said. “I think the election showed the issues we’re dealing with are very close in citizens’ minds.”

Only about one in five of Dunwoody’s registered voters showed up at the polls to decide the three council seats up for election. But the election drew eight candidates for the three seats, including three newcomers who announced they would run together as a slate to oust sitting council members in a “clean sweep” of Dunwoody government.

The sharp divisions shown during the election campaign spilled over in Dunwoody City Council’s meeting Nov. 12. Shortal said “the negativity in the last election was a little bit hard.”

PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE “I think it’s time for all of us At left, Councilman Denny Shortal and wife Meredy celebrate Shortal’s re-election to the District 1, Post 1 seat on City to get together,” Shortal said.

But Councilwoman Adri- Council. At right, Lindsay Ballow, left, congratulates Councilman Doug Thompson on his re-election in District 3, Post 3. an Bonser, who did not seek member Jim Dickson said the vote tocandidate in the race, David Davis, the city together again. “My idea is to re-election to her District 2, tals “verify the continued disconnect who received 3 percent. move forward ...,” Shortal said. “This Post 2 seat, said the election showed between the Dunwoody City Council After the votes were reported, is our city. We all need to stand toa large number of voters rejected “the and Dunwoody residents.”

Shortal said he planned to try to bring gether.” elitists in the city.”

On Nov. 5 each council district “It does not appear the ‘clean sweep’ was treated as a separate election, with candidates had much of an impact, voters within a district voting only on but they did,” Bonser said. “Fifty-one the seat representing that district. But percent of the voters voted against the Dickson, like Bonser, argued that addstatus quo.” ing all the votes cast together showed On Nov. 5, “clean sweep” candidate half the city’s residents cast their balJim Riticher took 52 percent of the lots for candidates who did not supvotes in the District 2, Post 2 race to port the city’s current direction. claim that council seat over two oth“These election er candidates, Heyresults are signifiward Wescott and Votes Percentage Turnout: cant since the three William A.J. Mer# of votes cast % of registered voters coalition candicier.

“These election results are dates were against Riticher and felDistrict 1, Post 1 the experienced significant since the three low “clean sweep” David Davis 49 3% politicians and candidates Hencoalition candidates were others who make Henly Shelton 609 39 ly Shelton and against the experienced up the Dunwoody Sam Eads said they Denis Shortal (I) 906 58 political establishpoliticians and others who wanted to change ment, the private Total 1,568* 18% the direction of make up the Dunwoody club of insiders,” Dunwoody’s city political establishment, the Dickson said. government, which District 2, Post 2 But Thompson private club of insiders.” had produced loud said he thought complaints from William Mercier 154 7% the election results – JIM DICKSON residents who opJim Riticher 1,137 52 SAVE DUNWOODY meant city officials posed several city would continue in Heyward Wescott 887 41 projects. their current direcResidents opTotal 2,179* 24% tion. “I think Dunposed to the city woody will continprojects, including a proposal to reue the course it’s on,” he said. build Dunwoody Village Parkway and District 3, Post 3 But he said city officials will have a design for a multi-use trail in Brook Sam Eads 776 49% to pay closer attention to their constitRun Park, organized a group called uents.

Doug Thompson 811 51 Save Dunwoody, who attended city “Nobody is going to sit here and meetings and posted yard signs critical Total 1,595* 20% say we’ve got a real majority going forof the projects. ward,” Thompson said.

Riticher said he thought he could In the race for the District 1, Post 1 make a difference as the sole newcomTotal votes cast 5,342 seat, Shortal collected the largest perer on the council. “I can keep them Total registered voters 25,863 centage of votes cast of any of the canon their toes,” Riticher said during a didates. With 58 percent of the vote, celebration party on Election Night.

Overall turnout: 21% he handily outpolled Shelton, who “We’ll try to shine lots of light.” collected 39 percent, and the third After the election, Save Dunwoody *includes write-ins Source: DeKalb County Voter Registrations and Elections

Dunwoody votes

Here are the results of the Nov. 5 Dunwoody City Council elections:

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Mayor Mike Davis: With the elections over, we’ll continue making the city a great place for all The city of Dunwoody just finished another city election, and residents selected representatives to occupy the three City Council seats up for election this year.

I congratulate all of the candidates who ran for office. Win or lose, running a campaign is hard work. I personally know the election and campaign process is one which takes tremendous effort, drive and energy to undertake. I’d like to thank each of the candidates for their contributions and for working to create a better Dunwoody.

I believe that by re-electing two incumbents and adding a new member to council this election has shown we are headed in the right direction, but we have more work to do.

Over the past 10 months and throughout the election cycle, many residents have made their voices heard on a number of projects and issues. Some of the issues and planned projects have brought varied levels of both support and resistance, which we as a City Council must listen to and address.

MIKE As city leaders, we must take the opportunity to continue our efforts at engagement, and broaden DAVIS our set of outreach and communications tools. What we want to encourage is interest in, and attendance at, our various public meetings and open assemblies to foster a better understanding of the kinds GUEST COLUMN of projects and decisions being put forward.

A perfect example of engaging ideas and discussion with the public around a project was realized in creating the new Georgetown Park. The city held public meetings, which not only amassed the various ideas and needs of what residents wanted from the new park, but those discussions guided the design and amenities which the park would contain when complete.

I realize a zoning code meeting (as compared to a brainstorming meeting around a new city park) may not appeal to every resident, as was evident by the dozen or so committed attendees who took part in the zoning code rewrite process. But it’s these types of opportunities the city will continue to host and promote which bring citizens to the table and help collectively structure a vision for a better Dunwoody.

I don’t believe any city always reaches a complete consensus on direction of future projects or developments. Each citizen has their own opinion, and hopefully through ongoing participation in public meetings and town halls, residents can better understand what’s being created or implemented. The opinions of the public were expressed in the voting booths and should continue to be expressed to the elected representatives who are charged with the responsibility of bringing community needs and desires to reality.

Participatory engagement is part of the reason the city has continued to put forth efforts for increased public involvement.

These efforts are found in initiatives such as the 2013 Citizen Pulse survey, multiple project open house events, email news alerts reaching more than 10,000 subscribers, site tours, information booths at community events, and more.

To further the opportunity for listening and engagement, we’ve established plans to conduct quarterly Town Hall events so we may expand and promote ongoing dialogue with residents.

What’s clear moving forward is that citizens have re-elected two incumbents and brought in a new council representative where a seat was being vacated. What’s also clear is now that the voters have spoken, it’s time to continue our focus as an elected body and set our efforts to the work at hand.

We’ve got a better Dunwoody to create, and with the input and guidance from its citizens, it will be a great place for everyone.

Mike Davis is the mayor of Dunwoody.

Don’t trust experts To the editor: Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis recently wrote an email response to a supporter of the dog park at Brook Run. The dog park fan asked the mayor how he responds to conflicting reports by certified arborists about the condition of the trees in the off-leash dog park.

In his email, Mayor Davis stated, “One thing I’ve learned as mayor is to not trust the experts.” By making such a bold statement in regard to expert testimony, the mayor has made his decision a personal one, and not one based on what is really good for the community. By stating that he doesn’t trust any of the expert testimony, he negates even the testimony of his own experts.

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cil. Two supporters of the dog park simply hired experts to challenge Dunwoody’s experts. The purpose was to provide expert opinion for both sides so that it would not be a one-sided debate.

Shouldn’t the city be given the opportunity to see both sides of the argument before making a decision that affects the city’s budget, the taxpayers’ dollars and the dogs and their owners, whose interests are involved? Both sides are presenting arguments so that the citizens can be informed.

The mayor’s decision was based on his own admittedly non-expert observations, including soil compaction, erosion and tree damage.

Soil compaction occurs when ground is trod upon. Is this why the city in-

stalled cement trails, so that the people walking them won’t compact the soil?

As to the tree damage, the only beings who are destroying trees are those hired by the city to chop down trees in order to make a concrete sidewalk. And more trees will be destroyed in order to create the new dog park. You must chop down trees so that the dogs won’t destroy them? Really? How does this make sense?

The dog park association is the most proactive group of people I have ever known. They do not rely on city funding for the upkeep of the park. They pay for and do the work of the park’s upkeep themselves. There are people out there tirelessly working on a voluntary basis picking up waste, spreading ground cover (purchased with donations by dog park patrons), clearing walking paths throughout the park, and making sure the water stations are clean and in working order. Donations have paid for all the seating in the park (hand-made by devoted volunteers).

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Aprons will provide family ties this Thanksgiving I’m a sucker for an apron.

I can slip on an apron that has a fetching Provincial pattern and imagine myself domestically stylish.

I used to never wear aprons—I thought them too retro and frumpy.

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And tie one on I do - every day - usually around 3 o’clock, as I a grab a cup of tea and drive off to the carpool line.

I keep it on for the red wine I sip while chopping onions, and I wear it straight through dinner and into cleanup.

It’s typically 10 o’clock before I disrobe.

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The food truck fad appears to have opportunity for a community event. I found a comfortable home in the Atlanthink that’s why it’s been so big. It’s been ta suburbs. so much fun.”

Communities around metro AtlanWhen Cagle first pitched the idea ta have reported that thousands of peoof the Smyrna event, some of the food ple have taken part in food truck events truck operators were skeptical, she said. during the summer and fall in order to But the crowds have been great since the check out the trucks’ unique fare and sofirst night. cialize with neighbors.

“Now that we’ve seen that it works, This year, Dunwoody held a popular there is no hesitation at all,” Cagle said. weekly event in Brook Run Park known “This formula of great food and music as “Food Truck Thursdays.” Brookhaven and community is working all over metliked the idea and followed suit with its ro Atlanta.”

“Food Truck Roundup” on Wednesdays In addition to the crowds, food trucks in Blackburn Park. find it’s often easier to obtain permits to Sandy Springs has offered food trucks operate in smaller cities, Cagle said. during its ArtSSpring festival, and Buck“In the city of Atlanta, you may have head is home to the Atlanta Food Truck to get three permits for one location. In Park on Howell Mill Road, where peothe suburbs, you need a valid health perple can go to find food trucks any day mit and a business license in the city,” of the week.

Cagle said. “In Dunwoody, that process For those who’ve somehow missed only took 20-30 minutes maximum. It’s them, food trucks are large vans outfitted as mobile restaurants. They’re known for offering inexpensive, international and upscale food – things like lamb burgers, Asian-style tacos or gourmet popsicles.

Bettie Cagle of Red Bird Events created Smyrna’s food truck event last year and was one of the organizers of Dunwoody’s Food Truck Thursdays. Cagle said the food trucks bring something unique to the suburban communities.

“In town, there are events Sandy Springs also offered a food truck going on every day. The event, ‘Foodie Fridays,’ as part of the trucks are very available in the ArtSSprings celebration. Patrons gathered city,” Cagle said. “We’re givweekly at Kudzu & Company on Roswell ing people a destination and Road to enjoy gourmet treats.

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Brookhaven’s Communications Director Megan Matteucci said the city initially started the food truck programs this fall as a way to celebrate Brookhaven’s parks.

“When we first started them, we knew they were popular in other communities. But weren’t sure what kind of turnout we would have in Brookhaven,” Matteucci said. “We’ve been overwhelmed by the turnout. Each night, the trucks served between 2,000 and 3,000 meals. We’re pretty happy with that.”

Matteucci said in addition to the food, Brookhaven offered music and kids’ activities as a way to bring residents out to the park. Brookhaven held its last Food Truck Roundup of the season Oct. 30. Matteucci said the city is planning to continue the programs next year, beginning in the spring.

Bill Grossman, secretary of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association, said his organization is known for sponsoring popular seasonal community events like the city’s Fourth of July Parade and Light Up Dunwoody. Food truck nights offered something different each week from May through October.

“We started it off the last day of school with, I think, six trucks. We immediately had a huge crowd the first night. The only complaint we got was ‘the lines are too long, add more trucks,’” Grossman said.

Grossman said the events also attracted lots of young families and people he’d never seen at other Dunwoody gatherings. The combination of the park, music and food seemed to work well, he said.

“When the weather’s nice and the musical act’s good, it’s almost magical,” Grossman said.

But city-sponsored food truck nights aren’t universally beloved. At Brookhaven town hall meetings, some residents complained that the programs made traffic worse on Ashford-Dunwoody Road. And some local businesses don’t like that the city is promoting the mobile restaurants that drive in from elsewhere.

Bill Brown, owner of There Brookhaven, said he thinks the city should support local businesses, too.

“I’m not anti food truck,” Brown said. “I don’t look at it as competition at all. I’m old school, and I believe business gets business. However, if the city chooses something to support and promote, there’s a lot of independent busi-

ness owners in the city that aren’t getting that kind of tweets and support.”

Cagle said she tries to find ways to incorporate local businesses into the events. For example, in Duluth, she said, one of the Mexican restaurants has a table at the event to sell margaritas.

“We’re working to really promote local businesses as well as our events,” Cagle said. “I don’t want to come in and take someone else’s business. We’re finding additional ways to promote the businesses as well as allowing them to be part of our event.”

Cagle said she believes the best part of the food truck events is that they foster a sense of community and encourage residents to get to know one another by spending the evening in the park.

“That’s what people are doing – they’re not grabbing food and leaving.

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Jan Collins says the Sandy Springs Society began as a way to help historic preservation efforts, but quickly turned into one of the community’s leading charitable organizations.

Over the last 25 years, the society has raised and contributed $2.5 million to local causes. One of their more high -profile fundraising initiatives was placing turtle statues throughout the city.

The society has contributed to local arts, parks and schools.

The official 25th anniversary of the society is in January.

“We hold fundraisers throughout the year and then we donate,” society Public Relations Chairwoman Julie Johnson said. “We have people apply for grants and we have a group that vets those.”

The $2.5 million figure might seem paltry compared with the donations of some other charities, but the society is an all-volunteer group of women. “Everything that we make is given back to the community,” Collins said.

Collins, who is the mother of Sandy Springs Councilman Chip Collins, was one of the group’s founding members.

The group organized in 1988 and settled on a 100-member limit, all women. The group took in members by invitation only. It still is all women and invitation only, though the membership ranks have grown to more than 300 members to meet the community’s needs.

“We were looking for community leaders, people who had a proven track record of interest in the community and leadership,” Collins said. “We had 109

people that wanted to join. That took care of it.”

Society President Kate Dalba said the group still gives 35 percent of its proceeds to Heritage Sandy Springs.

“We branched out and felt like we really wanted to provide for those in need in Sandy Springs,” Dalba said.

Dalba said in some respects the growth was unavoidable. Many of the group’s members were married to local doctors, she said.

“Northside Hospital’s foundation was the first big supporter of our foundation. We had so many physicians’ wives, and that gave us a real foot in the door,” Dalba said. “That’s been a great relationship.”

City Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny, who is returning to private life at the end of this year, joined the society in 2009.

McEnerny said the society’s impact has been more than philanthropic. Having so many influential women working together helped shape the community, even before Sandy Springs was officially a city, she said.

“We created a sense of place, a sense of community,” McEnerny said.

Dalba said one of the society’s goals for its 25th year is to remind people about the nonprofit’s presence in the community.

“My biggest push this year is to get the area to know about our organization,” Dalba said. “With 306 members at the moment, we do quite a bit to help Sandy Springs.”

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Local food banks said that the loss of center is located at 3550 Broad Street, food stamp benefits provided by governSuite F, Chamblee, 30341. For more ment stimulus money will make it hardinformation, visit www.sutherscenter. er to keep their pantries full. com.

On Nov. 1, a temporary increase in Buckhead Christian Minisspending on the federal Supplementry accepts donations from 10 a.m. to tal Nutrition As5 p.m., Monday sistance Program through Friday, at Do you know an organization or – more common2847 Piedmont ly known as food Road, Atlanta, individual making a difference stamps – expired, 30305. in our community? Email according to the You can also editor@reporternewspapers.net nonpartisan Cenmake a financial ter on Budget and donation through Policy Priorities. the website. A $25 The federal government had increased donation feeds a family of four for one spending in 2009 as part of a stimulus week, Cunningham said. To learn more, program intended to improve the econvisit http://buckheadchristianministry. omy. org.

CBPP estimates the end of the inThe Community Assistance crease will mean the state of Georgia Center accepts food pantry donations at will receive $210 million less from the the following times: SNAP program, affecting about 2 milMonday – Thursday, 9 a.m. - 11 lion Georgia residents. That means more a.m., and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. families will be turning to food banks Fridays, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. for help, food bank operators say.

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Tamara Carrera, executive director of the Community Assistance Center that serves Sandy Springs and Dunwoody, said some of the center’s clients will lose funding for a week’s worth of food.

“When just the threats of the cuts were happening in August, we went from 550 families per month to 830 families per month,” Carrera said. “It jumped almost 300 families.”

Carrera said she expects November’s numbers will be higher than 830 families.

Helen Cunningham, executive director of the Buckhead Christian Ministry, said the group has seen a 10 percent jump in demand. Cunningham said since 2009 the ministry’s food bank has distributed 1,500 to 1,700 bags of food each month.

“We’re doing 1,800 to 2,000 bags a month, and I anticipate that to grow further as the food stamps expire,” she said.

Stanley Rose with the Suthers Center for Christian Outreach in Chamblee said the center is seeing a 50 percent increase in clients each week.

“We’re giving out 50 to 55 pounds of food,” Rose said. “We’re going through a hell of a lot of food.”

Food banks said they are asking the public to help them keep up with the increase in demand for their services.

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Baby Sign Language Tuesday, Nov. 19, 6-8 p.m. – Sign-

ing to your baby can reduce frustration for both you and your baby. It gives babies the ability to express themselves, and accelerates your baby’s development of speech. Learn the benefits and the most common signs to teach your baby, and how to incorporate them into your daily routine. $32. Bring your own snack and water. Northside Hospital, Interchange Building, Suite 400, Classroom 419, 5780 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., NE, Atlanta , 30342.

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Cancer Care Thursday, Nov. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m. – The Cancer Support Community of Atlanta invites cancer patients and their loved ones to a free workshop that provides a practical guide to navigating the numerous and complex challenges of managing the cost of cancer care. Dinner provided. RSVP to 404-843-1880. 5775 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd., Building C, Suite 225, Atlanta, 30342. Visit: www. cscatlanta.org for more information.

Living Without Tinnitus Saturday, Nov. 23, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

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Have twice the wedding for half the price! Whether your budget is $1,000 or $100,000, make the most of every cent. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. For additional details, visit: www.sashajevents.eventbrite.com.

Georges Braque Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7 p.m. – Renee

Maurer, assistant curator of The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., discusses “Georges Braque: Paintings and Prints.” $5; free for Oglethorpe University Museum members or with a Petrel Pass. 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. For more information go to: museum.oglethorpe.edu or call 404-3648555.

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 10:15 a.m. – Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy special stories about Thanksgiving Day and being thankful. Lesson for toddlers age 1 at 10:15 a.m.; toddlers age 2 at 11 a.m.; and preschoolers ages 3-5 at 11:45 a.m. Free and open to the community. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305.

To find out more, email: comments@co.fulton. ga.us or call 404-814-3500.

Saturday, Nov. 23, 3-4 p.m. – Saturday story time, with some help from Ms. Leah, offers up a fun, seasonal tale, and related activities for the whole family. Sign up required and started Aug. 31. Space is limited. Free and open to the public. For preschool and elementary school youth. Sandy Springs Branch Library, in the Story Time Room, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. To ask questions or to register, email: leah.germon@fultoncountyga.gov or call 404-303-6130.

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Get crafty at the Chattahoochee Nature Center during Thanksgiving break! Reuse and recycle items to make fun, take-home projects. Different crafts each day. Continues Tuesday, Nov. 26, and Wednesday, Nov. 27, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. For ages 4 and up. Included with the cost of general admission, $10 adults; $7 seniors and students (ages 13 -18); $6 children ages 3-12; children 2 and under are free. 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075.

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Veterans Day Reporter Newspapers communities honored veterans on Nov. 11.

Sandy Springs held a ceremony at Concourse Corporate Center.

Above, left, keynote speaker Brig. Gen. John King, Georgia National Guard, far left, speaks with members of North Springs Charter High School’s Army ROTC Color Guard cadets, from left, Staff Sgt. Chloe Goins, Sgt. Major Blanca Boruez, and Staff Sgt. Ronald Evans. Above, right, the event was held at the Veterans Memorial near Concourse Building Five. Right, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School students cite the “Pledge of Allegiance.” Right, American flags were plentiful. Below, right, the city of Dunwoody honored the military at Brook Run Park.

Dunwoody High School Air Force ROTC Color Guard, from back to front, Otoniel Montufar, Uriel Maldunado, Isaac Shin and Erik Alvarez perform. At left, Madison Melendez, 3, intently watches the ceremony. Left, center, Cecil Hannaford, veteran of Battle of the Bulge, says a few words.

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COMMUNITY St. Joseph’s flower shop named for long-time volunteer Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital is honoring one of its long-time volunteers by naming the hospital’s in-house flower shop after her.

Marguerite Oberg, now 91 years old, recently retired from the hospital flower shop after 40 years of volunteer service. She began volunteering at Saint Joseph’s in 1973, when the hospital was located in downtown Atlanta, and established its first flower shop.

She has served as its volunteer director ever since.

“Because of her years of dedication and service to the hospital, naming the flower shop after Marguerite is a special way we can honor her work and her commitment to the hospital, its patients, and staff,” Marcia Schwefler, Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital Auxiliary president, said in a press release.

For decades, Oberg drove to a wholesale flower shop in downtown Atlanta once a week to select the roses, lilies, carnations and other flowers to be arranged by the volunteers in the hospital’s gift shop. She was the subject of a “Making a Difference” article in Reporter Newspapers in 2011.

“I loved my work at the hospital flower shop for the 40 years I was there, and am touched the shop has been named after me,” Oberg said. “It takes a team of dedicated ladies to produce the amount of flower arrangements we did for all those years, and we made a great team.”

Dunwoody honors teenagers as heroes Dunwoody city officials recently cited three teenage lifeguards as heroes for saving a 2-year-old who was not breathing after being pulled from a swimming pool.

David Fleming, Jessica McClure and Caroline Phillips, lifeguards at the Mill Glen Swim and Tennis Club, provided CPR to the child until emergency responders arrived, Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis said as he proclaimed Oct. 28 a day in their honor.

Stacey Harris, president of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association, who was at the pool for the Labor Day rescue, said the teens revived the child. “Those of us in Mill Glen are grateful,” she said.

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FAITH

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The name itself makes them seem old. Ancient, realmaze is trying to escape. A labyrinth offers only a single ly. Like something pre-Christian, something that might path. A person in a labyrinth follows that path to the be unearthed among long-lost ruins. center, then back out again.

But labyrinths – wandering pathways like the one “In a maze, you’re looking for a way out,” said The Greek myths say Daedalus devised to imprison the Rev. Beth Knowlton, canon for liturgy and prayer at monstrous Minotaur – are in the the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atmidst of a modern renewal. lanta. “[A labyrinth] is about a loss For the last couple of decades, of control. If I’m having a crazy labyrinths based on a medieval day, it’s a good way to calm down.” model have cropped up at church- “It is a form of meditation.

The journey, labyrinth fans say, es, retreats, private homes, even is what matters.

Whether you’re reading health-care institutions across the “It is a form of meditation,” Craa poem or just thinking, country and across Georgia and vens said. “Whether you’re reading I think it’s a form north metro Atlanta. They’re catcha poem or just thinking, I think it’s ing on with the faithful as a way a form of meditation.” of meditation.” to momentarily escape the distracRecent renewal of interest in labtions of modern life. yrinths grew from the rediscovery – MARY CAROLINE CRAVENS Mary Caroline Cravens of of one set into the floor at Chartres PRESIDENT OF ST. MONICA’S GUILD, THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. Buckhead, president of St. MonCathedral in France, Knowlton and PHILIP ica’s Guild at the Cathedral of St. others said, and many modern labPhilip, said she’s found an “amazyrinths are based on the Chartres ing release” walking labyrinths. design. There is some thought laby“You feel refreshed. Rejuvenated. rinths might have been used in the Lighter. Calmer,” she said. “I think Middle Ages to symbolically mimit’s because you’re leaving whatever burden it was [you ic pilgrimages to Jerusalem or other holy sites at a time brought in with you] in God’s hands.” when such religious trips were considered important Labyrinths are made to be walked. They are patterns signs of faithfulness. laid out on the floor or the ground. One of the first Recent interest in walking labyrinths has a different things labyrinth fans say is that the winding pathways intent. It’s about focus. are not mazes. Mazes are puzzles meant to be solved.

“I think it gives people a way to quiet themselves,” They sometimes offer several solutions. A person in a Knowlton said. “I think we live in an increasingly busy

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FAITH One, painted on canvas, can be spread out inside a church hall. The other, made with stone pavers, was installed this year in a garden just across a parking lot from the main building on Peachtree Road. The outdoor setting allows the stone labyrinth to be used at any time of day.

Knowlton said some walk the cathedral’s labyrinths regularly. “It becomes an important part of some people’s spiritual experience,” she said.

She regularly walks the labyrinth herself. “I feel less distracted after I do it,” Knowlton said. “It makes me slow down.”

Schultz says something about walking a labyrinth, something in the repetition of the walkway and in the walking itself, calms a user. She thinks that’s why labyrinths have cropped up in various cultures over thousands of years. “Something about our participation in that does something with the neurons in our brains,” she said.

“I don’t know the physiology of it, but I know the impact of it.”

Schultz said she’s seen people react in PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE various ways while walking labyrinths.

At left, pavers outline the outdoor labyrinth’s walkways at the Cathedral of St. Some match their breathing to their steps.

Philip in Buckhead. Right, The Rev. Alison Schultz proudly shows off the grass-andSome walk slowly, others more quickly. brick labyrinth outside Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Sandy Springs.

Some repeat psalms or prayers.

“I do it with no intentions, to see what ly good for centering people.” rinths, the winding paths are catching on. The interfeelings come,” she said. “You’ll find a lot of people cryThe Rev. Alison Schultz, associate rector at Holy Innational Labyrinth Society’s webpage [labyrinthsociety. ing about halfway through. You can feel very vulneranocents’ Episcopal Church in Sandy Springs, agrees a org] counts 75 in Georgia, including eight in Atlanble, because you’ve made yourself open to it.” labyrinth serves as a tool for meditation. Her church ta, and 25 others in metro communities scattered from Yielding control of her walk to the labyrinth can alrecently installed a grass-and-brick labyrinth in a meChamblee to Morrow. The website lists Georgia labylow her to focus her thoughts. “I can’t get lost in a labymorial garden outside the main church building. “If we rinths at Episcopal, Lutheran and Presbyterian churchrinth,” she said. “I don’t have to think about where I’m can relax, we might all feel better,” she said. es. going. I can just be there.”

Whatever the reason people find for using labySt. Philip’s Cathedral actually has two labyrinths.

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Warner Ray’s passion for running started in sixth grade.

That passion has paid off. In high school, Warner’s run for both the crosscountry and track teams.

He earned all-state honors in crosscountry for four consecutive years. In the state cross-country competition Nov. 9, he finished sixth overall, with a time of 17 minutes and 22 seconds, and the Holy Innocents’ boys team finished fourth in Class A, its highest place ever.

The school’s girls’ team finished sixth, the school said.

Warner has finished first among Holy Innocents’ runners in every race in which he’s competed during his fouryear career, school officials said. “He and [teammate Ross Waters] have re-written our record books,” Holy Innocents’ cross-country coach Dunn Neugebauer said.

Which kind of competition is his favorite? “Cross country, because of the trails,” Warner said. “You are not confined to run around a track.”

That reflects what he likes to do when he’s not competing. When he’s not running, Warner likes to be outside.

He lists his favorite activities as mountain biking, riding motorcycles and fishing. He says his favorite memory is the time he and his dad rode horses to Yellowstone National Park and then spent day fishing.

He also enjoys hanging out with friends and doing “normal teenage stuff” such as listening to music by country performers such as the Zac Brown Band and Keith Urban. Warner plays guitar himself.

“Warner is the full package – somebody who has the talent but also has one of the best work ethics on the team,” Neugebauer said. “I’ve coached him for

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A true joy.”

Coach Stephen Jayaraj, who has coached Warner for both cross country and track, says that in the time he’s known Warner, he’s been “an amazing student-athlete and even better leader,” who has helped take the team “from an also-ran to a state championship contender.”

“Warner has helped to revolutionize our whole cross-country program,” Jayaraj said. “We have grown numbers, depth and overall speed of the team under his leadership. ... Last year was the best year in our school’s history, and this year we are even better. Warner has been a huge reason why.”

What’s Next: Warner hopes to continue running cross-country in college. He is looking at several schools, incluidng the University of Mississippi, Belmont College and College of Charleston.

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in the park,” he said. “I take my book and I read my book, and I can look out at the vista through the dog park and it’s beautiful. And my dog walks around.

“I don’t call it a ‘dog park.’ It’s a people park, and people go and take their dogs.”

The park now is in a heavily wooded area of Brook Run. Dunwoody city officials plan to relocate it to about 2 ½ acres that includes both wooded areas and open field, city Parks and Recreation Manager Brent Walker said.

The new dog park will be located nearer the entrance to Brook Run and close to the skate park.

The supporters of the existing park argued the new park will take away shade and expose them and their dogs JOE EARLE to the summer sun. One told council Dunwoody resident Robert Moss showed his fervent members that the new park “won’t be support for leaving the current dog park at Brook Run used for a good portion of the year bealone during the City Countil meeting on Nov. 12. cause of the sun.”

“You don’t find many other dog portion used by the large dogs will open an acre at a time, parks around the nation that are shaded like this,” Shachanging periodically to protect the park, he said. ron Absaloff told the council. “It’s a great place.”

Walker said he intended to rotate park usage so shady City officials say they want to move the dog park, in areas of the park would be used in the summer and open part, because its long-term use as a dog park damages areas used during the winter. trees in the area.

Walker said the city had budgeted $195,000 for the The new park will have two acres set aside for large new park. The city now is seeking bids for the work, he dogs and a smaller area for small dogs, Walker said. The said.

The dog park regulars have proven time and time again that they are self-sufficient and responsible. And, part of their argument against relocation is the desire to save taxpayers’ money!

Volunteers in the dog park recognize that the city has to spend the budget money now in order to get more money in the future. That fact about government spending is not lost on this group. All that the dog park regulars are asking is that the city of Dunwoody consider its opposition with logic. If the money has been allocated for parks and recreation spending, then use it for parks and recreation. The dog park regulars are not refusing city money.

They simply believe that the money can be better allocated.

Keep the dog park where it is, away from a high-trafficked area of Brook Run where there are more automobiles and foot traffic to distract and alarm the dogs, cause escape, or worse. Keep the dog park where it is, where trees provide shelter as well as pleasure. Keep the dog park where it is, where no trees have died due to the ground being compacted or destroyed by digging or erosion.

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After a group of county residents decisively voted to bring their area into the city of Chamblee, Brookhaven City Council has decided to end its fight to annex the Century Center office complex.

At a Nov. 12 meeting, Brookhaven City Council approved a resolution to discontinue funding for an appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. Also in its resolution, the City Council asked Chamblee to drop its lawsuit against Brookhaven over the Century Center property.

“After thoughtful deliberation on this important issue, we decided that Highwoods Properties can continue its own course as they see fit. However, we won’t be funding the current appeal,” Davis said. “We would like to congratulate the new citizens of Chamblee. We hope to see the entire northeast corridor of DeKalb municipalized because we believe it’s best for the region.”

For months, the cities of Brookhaven and Chamblee have been wrangling over who has the right to annex Century Center, a large commercial property near the intersection of Clairmont

Road and I-85.

After Highwoods Properties, the owners of Century Center, applied for annexation into Brookhaven, Brookhaven City Council voted Oct. 8 to bring the property into the city. But Century Center was already drawn into the General Assembly’s local act establishing the Chamblee annexation referendum.

The two cities went to court, and DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Tangela Barrie ruled that Brookhaven could only annex the property if the Nov. 5 Chamblee referendum failed.

After the referendum was approved, state legislators put pressure on the Brookhaven City Council to give up the Century Center fight.

Reps. Mary Margaret Oliver and Scott Holcomb sent a letter to the City Council members. And Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Brookhaven, said he called the mayor and council asking them to respect the outcome of the Chamblee referendum.

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Jim Bacchetta, vice president of Highwoods Properties Atlanta Division, said Highwoods would have preferred to join the city of Brookhaven.

“Folks who voted certainly deserve the right to vote and determine their future and whether or not they want to be in Chamblee. As you know, we’re a corporate citizen, so we had no vote [Nov. 5]. But we cast our vote when we applied for annexation into Brookhaven and that’s what we wanted, obviously,” Bacchetta said.

In 2012, the Chamblee annexation referendum failed by a razor-thin margin. Acknowledging ballot issues, legislators gave residents a second chance and put the annexation measure back before voters in 2013, where it was ap-

proved by more than 60 percent.

Elmer Veith of Citizens for Chamblee, the group that advocated for the Chamblee annexation, said he thinks voters overwhelmingly approved the measure this time around because they recognized the impending changes in their region.

The portion of DeKalb County below the annexation area, just south of I-85, is in a state of political upheaval.

Several groups are vying to create cities in the area.

“They realize another city is going to form on the other side of I-85,” Veith said. “They realized it was time to make a choice and have some control over how the area is going to move forward.”

Though the annexation referendum was driven by residents in the Dresden East area, Chamblee officials have championed the effort.

Chamblee Mayor Eric Clarkson said he thinks the approximately 11,000 new residents will strengthen the city of Chamblee.

“I think it’s great for the community,” Clarkson said. “I think I can speak for entire council and say we’re excited to have the new area become part of city of Chamblee.”

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When medical emergencies happen, sometimes it’s a police officer who responds first. So, many police cars are now equipped with Automatic External Defibrillators, which officers can use to resuscitate a person who’s gone into cardiac arrest.

“They’re already out patrolling the neighborhoods. A lot of the times, they’re in the area closer, and able to be on the scene faster than an ambulance and EMS,” said Brookhaven Police Lt. Brandon Gurley.

Brookhaven is hoping to put AEDs into each of its police cars. A group called the Friends of Brookhaven is working to raise $65,000 to buy the units in time for the city’s first birthday Dec. 17.

“This was one of the first things we discussed in our equipment needs, eventually being able to purchase AEDs for all patrol cars,” Gurley said of the department, which officially came online July 31. “Having Friends of Brookhaven step in to minimize costs for the city has been outstanding,” Gurley said.

Brookhaven’s neighboring cities, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs, already have their police cars equipped with the units.

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by Dunwoody Police officers to save lives. A group of Brookhaven residents is raising money to buy AEDs for the city’s police cars.

DeKalb County Commissioner Elaine Boyer, has helped organize the efforts to bring AEDs to the police departments in Dunwoody and Brookhaven.

“Eleven years ago, my wife suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and there were no AEDs available. It took the paramedics and emergency personnel 47 minutes to restore a normal heart beat,” sponder vehicles.

Lundsten said. “The lives of my ‘They’re a good tool. I don’t even daughters were changed forever. Had know what the expense is, but it’s monthere been an AED on site, her qualiey well spent. All you have to do is interty of life would be dramatically differcept one victim that’s going into cardiac ent today.” arrest and bring them back and it’s paid Gurley said when someone suffers a for itself twofold,” Rose said. heart attack, every second counts. “StaGurley said AEDs tistics show the first are simple to use. five minutes being a “AEDs are designed crucial time to begin to be used by individ“Statistics show the first applying an AED to an individual’s chest five minutes being a crucial uals with no training to apply shocks and time to begin applying an to use them,” Gurley said. “It analyzes put the heart back in rhythm,” Gurley AED to an individual’s chest the patient’s heart. If to apply shocks and put the it’s beating the way it said. should be, it will not For every minute heart back in rhythm.” send a shock.” that someone’s heart Rose said officers does not beat on its – POLICE LT. BRANDON GURLEY encounter all sorts own, the chance of BROOKHAVEN of situations where recovery declines by they need to step in, 10 percent, Lundsten like drug overdoses, said. choking victims and injuries from traffic “I think we have three saves by the accidents.

“You just drive up on stuff all use of AEDs and we’ve deployed them the time,” Rose said. multiple other times,” said Dunwoody He said when the Sandy Springs deOfficer Tim Fecht. “The fact that we’ve partment was created, officers decided had three saves, that justifies the budget they wanted to purchase AEDs for the any day in my opinion.” cars.

Lundsten said he wants Brookhaven “We were putting together a departofficers to be prepared, too. ment, and part of that process was ‘what “First responder programs have saved do we want in a patrol car?’” Rose said. lives in the city of Chamblee and the city “AEDs were right along with that first of Dunwoody where their police departline of what we wanted in the cars. It ments have AEDs in all police vehicles. was a priority.”

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Survey finds metro Atlantans want better roads and transit

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On Nov. 1, the Atlanta Regional Commission released results of the “Metro Atlanta Speaks” survey, described as “one of the most extensive” in the region’s history.

It revealed some interesting things about the 10-county Atlanta region. The A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Service and Research at Kennesaw State University surveyed over 2,100 voting age adults.

Here are some of the survey’s conclusions:

1) Metro residents want better roads and public transit. The survey reports that 56.8 percent of residents say traffic has gotten worse. The survey asked several questions about the state of the metro region’s roads and public transportation.

Even though voters in this same 10-county region in 2012 overwhelmingly rejected a penny sales tax to improve roads and transit, the survey found 21.4 percent of residents think traffic is the region’s No. 2 problem, ranking slightly lower than the economy.

An overwhelming 71.3 percent responded that public transportation is “very important” for the region’s future. They also think building better roads and public transit is the best long term solution, with 40.9 percent supporting better public transit and 30 percent supporting better roads.

Only 2.7 percent of people who responded suggested doing nothing. In 2012, 63 percent of voters in the 10-county region rejected the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax to pay for road and public transit improvements.

2) Metro residents are OK with their schools, even though public education in the metro area has taken some serious hits over the last couple of years.

Even though the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal and the persistent dysfunction of DeKalb County Schools have dominated local news headlines, most people who responded to the survey were satisfied with public education as a whole.

The survey says 35.4 percent of people who responded think the quality of education in the metro area is “fair” and 29.7 percent think it’s “good.”

The survey found 3.8 percent think the quality of schools is “excellent.”

At the local level, residents were even more satisfied with their public schools. The survey says that 19.5 percent of respondents think their local schools are “excellent,” and 35 percent think their local schools are “good.”

The survey respondents ranked education as the fourth biggest problem facing the region, behind crime, traffic and the economy.

3) The Internet and television are the region’s top news sources.

The decline of newspapers has been going on for several years, and the survey gives that trend some additional perspective in metro Atlanta.

According to the survey, 38.7 percent of people get their news from television and 34 percent get their news from the Internet. The survey found 8.7 percent of respondents get their information from newspapers, which is slightly ahead of the 5.3 percent of people who get their news through word of mouth.

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The ordinance is being considered because council members decided to drop provisions limiting pets from the city’s zoning regulations.

The proposal would allow the city to declare a “companion animal” a nuisance if “by its bodily waste odor, unsanitary condition or habitual howling, yelping, barking or BR I EF S other noise disturbs the comfort, peace or quiet of nearby property or which would cause annoyance or discomfort to a reasonable person of normal sensitivity in the area.”

The city would only get involved after complaints were brought by neighbors.

Study says Dunwoody houses priced highest in state A recent study found Dunwoody houses were the most expensive in Georgia and the 513th most expensive in the U.S. After comparing the listing price of more than 72,000 fourbedroom, two-bath homes across the country, Coldwell Banker Real Estate determined the home would cost $360,819 in Dunwoody, compared with $120,195 in Stone Mountain, which the study called the “most affordable” place in Georgia.

Nationally, the average listing price of that four-bedroom, two-bath home was $301,414, Coldwell Banker said in a press release on its 2013 Home Listing Report. The most affordable community was in Cleveland, Ohio, where the four-bedroom, two-bath house was $63,729.

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