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Police add extra patrols, put more officers in uniform for the holidays

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BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE

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Singers bearing candles welcome the holiday season during the Swedish Christmas Market on Nov. 22. Stina Brown, Olivia Goeke, Savannah Norgren and Ella Sortino, front row, from left, and Helena Loren and Johanna Rehn, back row, perform during the market at the Dorothy Benson Center.

Lights, cameras for Abernathy Greenway park?

BY ANN MARIE QUILL

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Construction is slated to start next summer on the Abernathy Greenway linear park’s south side. At a Nov. 19 public meeting, residents chimed in on what they would like to see incorporated in the park.

“I like a trail that has lights,” said resident Lisa Clavin, who also suggested a security camera and identification signs

for native trees and plants for students to read during school field trips.

She also suggested a water feature to block out the traffic noise. Clavin said she didn’t want to see restrooms or parking spaces.

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Santa’s got reindeer watching his sleigh, but shoppers at the mall best lock their cars and keep gifts out of plain sight, police say.

With the arrival of Black Friday, the heralded start of the holiday shopping season, police in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs are shifting officers’ assignments and adding patrols to make their presence felt in high-volume shopping areas. Police say they want to be visible throughout the holiday season.

Ralph Woolfolk, a spokesman for the Atlanta police, said the department offers officers overtime opportunities in a program called “Holiday Detail 2014.” That enables the department to keep more officers on the street. In Dunwoody and Brookhaven, police shift officer assignments as the need arises during the holidays.

Police officers will also be out in uniform even when off duty, he said. “Chief [George] Turner requires all APD officers to wear full uniform, with few exceptions, during the holiday season, which enhances visibility throughout the city,” Woolfolk said.

Sandy Springs police spokesman Ron Momon said more police from specialized units are reassigned to shopping areas. “We also typically have some of our community officers and citizen volunteers pass out holSEE POLICING, PAGE 24

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COMMUNITY Hammond Park getting electric vehicle charging stations Electric vehicle charging stations are headed to Hammond Park. During its Nov. 18 meeting, the Sandy Springs City Council accepted a grant from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority (GEFA) to help fund the installation.

“To be a sustainable community, you need the infrastructure in place which encourages conservation,” Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul said in a press release. “Hammond Park is an BR I EF S ideal spot for this type of station. Drivers can charge up while enjoying a brief respite at the park.”

The city will receive $6,340 from the state and match those funds for a total of $12,680. The city must agree to keep the charging stations operational at least three years. Two dual charge pedestal Level II electric vehicle charging stations are planned for Hammond Park, and will be operational five days a week, 12 hours a day. Users will be charged a nominal fee to charge their vehicles.

Despite objections, city approves new homes Members of City Council on Nov. 18 unanimously agreed to rezone a property on Roswell Road to allow development of 325 apartments and 162 townhomes. The property had been zoned solely for apartments.

Some neighbors objected, saying the buildings would be too tall for the area. “My neighborhood is not against development. We are against overdevelopment,” resident Jane Kelly said.

But Councilman John Paulson said the mix of owner-occupied units and apartments would provide an appropriate transition from a busy street to a single-family neighborhood. “This to me is a good compromise,” he said.

Also on Nov. 18, members of the City Council split 4-2 as they approved a plan to build 15 homes on Mitchell Road. The proposal drew opposition from neighbors who wanted to see no more than 14 homes built in the 5-acre subdivision at 5950 Mitchell Road.

Hal Whiteman, who lives nearby on Manchester Place, told council members the neighborhood had originally wanted only 13 homes on the property, but had agreed to back 14. But the developer, he said, would not agree to reduce the number. “The point is density,” Whiteman said. “Throughout the city, people are concerned about developers coming to the city and pushing the limits as far as they can.”

Councilman Tibby DeJulio, who voted against the proposal along with Councilman Graham McDonald, said he opposed the project because the reason given for not reducing the number of homes was “the seller needed this much money.” “I think that when you negotiate, you should negotiate,” he said.

But other council members said they didn’t understand why a failure to agree over one house should stop the project. “I don’t know how you negotiate from 15 to 14.

I really don’t,” Councilman Andy Bauman said. “We’re talking about a single home here.”

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Residents: Lanes should improve Ga. 400

BY JOE EARLE

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Miguel Cornejo remembers when only two lanes of Ga. 400 carried traffic in each direction, north and south. He recalls the wide grass median that divided the road then.

He and his family moved into the Spalding Woods subdivision in 1981. His house stands across the street from houses that back up to the highway. In the early days, he said, when his wife drove their children to swim practice, “she was the only one going north” on Ga. 400.

Things have changed. The two lanes of Ga. 400 headed in either direction became four, then five, during the peak travel hours. The road’s shoulders are now open to commuter traffic, he said. Nowadays, traffic on Ga. 400, Cornejo said, is “unbelievable.”

“When I walk my dog on this [nearby] road,” he said, pointing to a side street near his home, “I use earphones in my iPod, and I can feel Ga. 400 right at my feet.”

That’s why he joined more than 200 residents Nov. 18 who gathered at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church to look over the proposed changes the Georgia Department of Transportation plans for a stretch of Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs, and for the interchange between Ga. 400 and I-285. Cornejo wanted to tell GDOT officials they needed to install noise barriers between the road and his neighborhood.

“I’m saying they needed sound barriers a long time ago,” he said. “They need sound barriers all the way to Northridge [Road]. Most of these areas do not have sound barriers.”

Other residents offered other suggestions or questions for the GDOT officials who unveiled new wall maps of a

proposed network of “collector and distributor” roads they propose building to get local traffic off Ga. 400 in hopes of easing traffic tie-ups.

Their plans for the collector/distributor system call for about $330 million of construction along Ga. 400 from Hammond Road to just north of Spalding Drive. The project ties into a major transformation planned for the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange. The overall project is expected to cost about $1 billion.

GDOT officials showed some proposed changes in the collector/distributor system since their last public presentation earlier this year. The new plans, GDOT spokeswoman Marlo Clowers said, add local traffic lanes alongside Ga. 400, include a “diverging diamond” interchange at Abernathy Road and a new design for the “flyover bridge” exit for the North Springs MARTA station.

GDOT officials hope to start construction on the project in 2016 and complete the job in 2019.

Cornejo welcomes the work. “The project itself, I’m all for it,” he said. “Ga. 400’s intersection with I-285 is a mess. Ga. 400 needs that project. Ga. 400 is a big parking lot at peak hours.”

Other Sandy Springs residents at the meeting agreed.

“My sense is it’ll be an improvement,” said Ronny Broyles, who lives and works at locations along the stretch of Ga. 400.

“Any effort they make will be an improvement,” Broyles said. “Sometimes, it’s a nightmare. These feeder lanes will be food for the folks who work [nearby]. ... This is progress.”

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Art Reid looks at new plans for a Ga. 400 collector and distributor road system proposed at the Georgia Department of Transportation’s open house on Nov. 18 at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church.

Art Reid, who said he’s lived in the Spalding Drive area 20 years, said the work “seems to be necessary.”

Still, he’s not looking forward to the construction. “I think it’s going to be a big mess until it improves this,” he said. “I’m optimistic long term.”

The changes, he said, should help handle the traffic related to new office and apartment developments proposed in the area. “I believe this all seems to be necessary in order to accommodate what I perceive is going to happen,” he said.

Leon Folsom was encouraged by what he saw when he studied the GDOT drawings of the new interchange. He came to the public meeting to find out how much land in his neighborhood would be taken for the widening of I-285, he said. “The answer seems to be zero,” he said. “It’s hard to imagine widening a highway and not taking land.

It would be nice to hold them to that.”

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Bill Cleveland said lights would bring a “sense of security” to the park.

“If you’re at Brandon Mill and Abernathy, and look toward Roswell Road, it’s awfully dark,” he said.

And Carolyn Jordan said she’d like to see the “really pretty stonework” on the park’s north side continued on the south side.

Sandy Springs Parks Director Ronnie Young addressed the crowd gathered at Sandy Springs City Hall to give a time line for the 14-acre park’s design and construction.

He said that preliminary designs will be presented to the City Council in December, with final plans presented in February or early March, at which time his department will make a request for funding. Then, in May or June a request for proposals for a construction company will go out, with work starting in July.

The park stretches from Brandon

Mill Road to near Roswell Road, across Abernathy Road from park’s north side, which opened in July and features “playable art.”

Young described the future park as more “passive,” with natural areas, stream restoration and areas to rest. He went over some of the features that have already been requested by residents, including visual and sound buffers from the road. “This could be vegetation,” he said.

Additional features that have been requested include low-maintenance landscaping, safe community access, access from the Provence North apartment complex and Mimms shopping center, benches, fitness stations, trash cans, bike racks and creek crossings.

“I think some of those things may be very difficult to include, not a lot, but two or three or four [of the requested features],” he said, including a request for added parking at the nearby Arts Center.

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Members of the Ivy Garden Club of Atlanta will celebrate their club’s 75th anniversay this year. Above, standing, left to right, Eleanor Beckham, Sue Mobley, Tish Redford, Martha Smith; seated, left to right, Llewellyn Bell, Faye Van Winkle, Sue Redd.

‘Ivy’ - ‘a great garden club’ marks its 75th year

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Cindy Price remembers how her Staci Catron, director of the Cherokee mother and her friends always looked Garden Library at the Atlanta Histoforward to garden club meetings. “When ry Center, which keeps Ivy scrapbooks it was garden club day, there would be a along with records from about 100 Atlittle spring in their step,” Price said. lanta clubs.

She was intrigued. So in 1990, she Since Ivy was established in 1939, it joined the Ivy Garden has been involved in sevClub of Atlanta herself. A eral high-profile Atlanfew years ago, her daughta gardening projects, ter, Sarah, also joined.

Catron said. Ivy mem“We are three generations bers helped landscape the of gardeners who have Wren’s Nest in west Atlanbeen enjoying Ivy,” Price ta and gardens in the East said proudly.

Lake area of the city and And they aren’t the the herb garden at the hisonly north Atlanta family tory center’s Smith Famiwith more than one genly Farm. eration in the club, which “They’re a big deal,” celebrates its 75 birthday Catron said. “Ivy’s a good this year. club. I like them a lot.

Membership in “Ivy” – They’re good ladies. They that seems to be the way work hard.”

Helen Stewart long-term members talk What keeps the club of the club, as if it were going? “It’s a lovely an old friend everyone bunch of women,” Phylknows by its first name –sounds at times lis Menser said. like a legacy to be handed down from “It’s a wonderful group of wommother to daughter. And three generaen who do so much more than work tions along, the club still has a waiting in the garden or arrange flowers,” said list of women who’d like to join.

Llewellyn Bell. “This group is not only Ivy now counts about 125 members talented. They are kind hearted.” altogether, most of them from BuckThey also enjoy one another’s compahead, Sandy Springs or Vinings, said ny. During the club’s Nov. 18 meeting, club president Helen Stewart, who’s about 80 women packed into a Buckpart of a mother-daughter membership head home to socialize, have lunch and pair herself. That total includes 50 “achear a presentation about flower arrangtive” members. The number of active ing. members stays constant -- no new active “I really do love this group of wommembers are allowed in until one of the en,” Stewart said. “I think what’s nice existing members resigns or otherwise about it and unique to it is there are changes status. women of all ages. Many of us are in Ivy grew up as part of a garden club different life stages and that makes for movement that flowered across the a supportive group. The whole thing is country in the 1910s and 1920s, said just great. It’s a great garden club.”

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We need water from the mighty Tennessee On Nov. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the state of Florida’s motion to allow the equitable apportionment water sharing lawsuit against Georgia to move forward. Florida alleges that Georgia uses too much water in the Chattahoochee and Flint River basins without returning enough water for downstream use by Florida in the Apalachicola Bay. We do have strong arguments for why the U.S. Supreme Court should not move forward with the litigation, particularly since almost 70 percent of the water used by metro Atlanta is returned to the river for downstream use. However, we need to move forward with efforts to secure additional water resources no matter the eventual outcome.

There are demand-side and supply-side solutions.

On the demand side, Georgia has made great strides. With passage of the Georgia Comprehensive Statewide Water Management Plan of 2008 during the last great drought and the more recent Georgia Water Stewardship Act of 2010, Georgia now has some of the most stringent water conservation efforts in the Southeast. Our per capita water has been significantly reduced.

However, demand side solutions alone will not be enough for us to continue to attract economic development and jobs to our region. We must have additional supply. Interbasin transfers of water are the way that most major cities in the U.S. have enough water supply.

The only interbasin transfer that makes sense for Atlanta is one from the enormous Tennessee River. It would significantly help Florida (and Alabama) as well. The state of Florida has publicly called for Georgia to augment the Chattahoochee River and the very best way to do so is from the Tennessee.

Environmentally, the actual effect on the river would be minimal.

In fact, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s 2004 Environmental Impact Statement found that interbasin transfers of more than 1 billion gallons a day would not significantly affect reservoir levels. Just half of that daily excess would complete-

ly meet all of metro Atlanta’s water needs for the next 100 years.

Georgia has been disputing its border with Tennessee since 1818, when a survey improperly set the line one mile south of the mutually agreed upon border at the 35th parallel. Georgia never accepted the survey, but Tennessee did.

Tennessee has since rebuffed or ignored 10 different attempts by BRAD Georgia to solve the issue. In 2013, CARVER the Georgia General Assembly passed House Resolution 4, a good GUEST COLUMN faith effort designed to avoid litigation. This proposal would grant Georgia rights to the Tennessee River by moving the border only at the Nickajack reservoir and recognizing the remainder of the flawed survey as the official boundary.

Contrary to armchair legal scholars who dismiss our case, there is a litany of legal justification for Georgia’s claim, should it come to litigation. Whether we negotiate a deal or litigate, asserting our historic riparian rights to the mighty Tennessee would help prevent chronic flooding in the Tennessee River valley and provide extra water to Georgia, Alabama and Florida downstream of Atlanta. This is truly a regional solution to the Southeast’s water troubles.

Let’s solve this problem together and leave the battles for the football field.

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To the editor: Welcome to the Ball Mill Road racetrack, where any speed limit is to be ignored.

To the editor: Account Executive What a fun challenge to drive as fast as you can while maI read your article about Glenridge Hall [“Historically sigSusan Lesesne neuvering this twisting road. Barely dodging cars leaving their nificant Glenridge Hall ‘in peril,’ ” Nov. 14-27], and while the Sales Consultants driveway or citizens out walking seems to be no big deal. Ighome is beautiful and historically significant to Sandy Springs, David Burleson nore the “new” speed limit signs of 25 mph because there is no I’m equally concerned about potential development of the Linda Howell enforcement by Sandy Springs police...ever. northern track and its impact on the Office Manager I am trying to make a point here that we need to adbeautiful Marsh Creek which crosses Deborah Davis LE TTER S T O dress this problem with two stop signs. We need one at this section (I believe about 39 acres) deborahdavis@reporternewspapers.net the corner of Skyridge and Ball Mill Road. Another stop below the house.

THE E DIT OR Contributors sign at Spalding Mill and Ball Mill Road would help, also.

Currently this stream is in good E-mail letters to These idiots aren’t going to stop, but at least this will shape ecologically for an urban Art Huckabee, Robin Isaf, Phil Mosier editor@reporternewspapers.net slow down the speeders. These speeders are your neighstream. It flows south behind Webors as well as drivers taking the short-cut through here to ber School, then goes under Roswell Free Home Delivery Spalding Drive or Dunwoody Club.

Road (Ga. 9.), winding through the 65,000 copies of Reporter Newspapers are delivered The city of Sandy Springs has been contacted about this subdivisions that occupy the old Ed Dodd/Mark Trail farm by carriers to homes in ZIP codes 30305, 30319, problem numerous times, and so far their recent answer has before crossing under Brandon Mill and Riverside Drive.

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Sandy Springs, Dunwoody angle for tourists

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Sandy Springs touts fly fishing on the chilly Chattahoochee River, walking trails that feel like they’re in the mountains, various parks and a museum dedicated to Anne Frank. Dunwoody promises the Dunwoody Nature Center and the Spruill Center for the Arts.

But tourism experts from the two cities say those attractions aren’t the main reasons travelers visit Perimeter area communities.

They come primarily for business travel. Or they visit Perimeter Mall, which draws about 18 million visitors a year to Dunwoody, or “Pill Hill,” the world-class medical center that includes Northside Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Children’s Healthcare.

“Sandy Springs is not necessarily a tourist destination,” said Mayor Rusty Paul. “Our hospitality market is largely business driven.”

Paul and tourism officials from the Perimeter area say they are trying to move beyond business travelers. Sandy Springs offers 18 hotels and Dunwoody has five more, and the message the communities now promote is to try to convince business travelers to “stay an extra day and enjoy the area.”

“Our primary focus is on driving weekend demand,” said Katie Bishop, executive director of the Dunwoody Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. “Our hotels do very well during the week with corporate business and business travel. We see our mission as trying to fill the hotels on the weekend.”

She said that since the bureau was formed in 2009 and started tracking numbers in 2010, weekend hotel occupancy has increased 18 percent. Sandy Springs anticipates $3.6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Katie Bishop, executive director of the Dunwoody Convention and Visitors Bureau, says the bureau’s focus is in trying to fill local hotels on the weekend.

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Trophy business finds customers on corporate playing fields

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When Ray Sonshein took a job at his dad’s trophy business 26 years ago, the company sold mostly plaques and the little plastic trophies that line the shelves of young ballplayers.

Sonshein still stocks those youth league baseball and basketball trophies topped with players kicking soccer balls or swinging baseball bats, but he says they now make up only a tiny fraction of his business. These days, Metro Trophy Co. sells primarily the sorts of trophies that go to men and women, rather than boys and girls.

JOE EARLE “We still do [sports] troRay Sonshein’s trophy business phies,” Sonshein said, “but handles more corporate awards that’s not our focus. ...

We’ve moved away from Litthan sports awards these days. tle Leagues and schools and moved to corporate awards – employee products we sell now usually are much recognition and sales awards.” more impressive than they used to be.”

Sonshein’s business has gone corpoThey cost more, too. Sonshein says rate. Metro Awards nowadays sells the prices can run from $25 up to hundreds kind of plaques, trophies and desktop of dollars, depending on the trophy. knicknacks that corporate managers and “From time to time, you can have a spebusiness owners hand out to recognize cial award that can run $1,000 a unit, but good work by their employees. that’s the exception,” he said.

In the showroom in the front of his As his customers change, Sonhsein’s Sandy Springs-based business, walls and business is changing in other ways, too. shelves are crowded with awards made of When he started working with his dad at crystal, wood or polished metthe company’s shop, then on al and engraved with corporate Cheshire Bridge Road, he relogos. Plastic sports trophies P er imet er calls that it was just the two take up only a single, small of them and they barely had P r o f ile shelf at the rear of the store. enough room to move around.

“It’s a lot different than it Sonshein said space was so was 20 to 30 years ago. The tight he had to stand up at his business community is using these types desk every time his dad, Irv Sonshein, of things -- and recognition -- as a motineeded to walk past. vational tool, which is important. Over Now the company employs three fullthe last 20 years, the designs have become timers and a part-timer, he said, and the much nicer, much more distinctive. I back shop has room for computers, comthink it’s a combination of the fact that puter-operated lasers and a sandblaster recognition is a more widely used tool [in with its own room. corporate settings], along with the ability And where the trophy business once to provide something that’s personalized was a drop-by-the-shop kind of enterand unique [as a keepsake].” prise, where customers knew their trophy Corporations, he said, have discovered providers personally, the business now is that employees respond to being noticed moving to the Internet. and honored for their work, he said. “The In December, Sonshein plans to roll value of an award is it stays out there,” out a new Metro Awards website he says he said. “No salesman wants to be the will act more like an online store than just top producer because we put that on a a place to see his wares. “The website will plaque, but because he wants that recogfunction more like a selling tool,” he said. nition. In business today, [recognition] is “We used the website more like a catalog, a tool. It really has value.” instead of a free-standing store.”

At the same time, the awards themStill, the basics count. Even as techselves have changed. He still offers lovnology and a changing customer base ing cups and wall plaques, but there are retools the kinds of awards his compacolorful crystal or polished metal awards ny sells and how it sells them, all values that look more like desktop sculptures count, too. than prizes. “The industry has become a “You what the most important thing lot more sophisticated, with computers about any award is?” he asked. “Spelland lasers,” he said. “There’s a lot more ing the person’s name right. It’s the first creativity in making the products. ... The thing they look for.”

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The popular Atlanta-area café Souper Jenny will soon give Brookhaven a trial run.

Jenny Levison plans on opening a “pop up” Souper Jenny’s location on Dec. 1 inside Nuts ‘n Berries, 4274 Peachtree Road, in the former Brookhaven Bistro location. Levison said she will give the spot a try for eight weeks, possibly extending that time, if it’s successful.

“I love Brookhaven,” she said. “I always look for spots in the neighborhoods I like to hang out in.”

Levison says she will decide soon whether to extend the time in Brookhaven and will know by Jan. 1 “if the location will work for us.”

The “pop up” menu will include the café’s trademark healthy soups, salads, sandwiches and baked goods along with fresh juices from Juicy Jenny, Levison’s East Andrews Drive juice bar located near Souper Jenny in Buckhead.

JOEL SILVERMAN The original Souper Jenny A “pop up” Souper Jenny location will opened in Buckhead in 1998, followed by Cafe Jonah on Pacappear in Brookhaven on Dec. 1. es Ferry Place in 2010. Levison opened Juicy Jenny in 2012, and in 2013 on the “Today Show” and “Dr. Oz.” ventured outside Buckhead to open the Levison says her ventures have been second Souper Jenny in Decatur. Levisuccessful for two reasons. son also recently announced plans for “I have an incredible team,” she said. another permanent Souper Jenny in At“I am very picky in my hiring and we lanta’s West Side on Huff Road. are a close knit team. Even at almost 50 She’s published two cookbooks, employees, I know everyone, and work “Souper Jenny Cooks!” and “Souper hard to keep everyone happy. I also love, Jenny Does Salad.” Levison has appeared love, love what I do.”

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The Sandy Springs Chamber of Commerce assisted with a ribbon cutting on Nov. 20 for the SKIRT Upscale Resale store.

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Gravity Studio, a gym offering classes and personal training, celebrated its arrival in Sandy Springs with a ribbon cutting on Nov. 12. Attending the event were employees, the Sandy Springs Chamber of Commerce, city officials and friends. From left, Suzanne Brown, Chris Adam, Emiko Yang, Brandon Flowers, Dane Robinson, Gravity Studio fitness director, Paige Castor, Gravity Studio, Andrea Hall, Beth Burger and Neil Wiesenfeld.

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million in total revenue from the tax in FY2015, while Dunwoody expects $2.3 million. Both have seen increases in the past couple of years.

Bishop says her office uses a threepronged approach in marketing the city to weekend tourists.

One strategy is a group sales effort that targets associations, faith-based organizations or social events that need weekend space. Another is a marketing strategy focused on positioning Dunwoody as a weekend getaway destination, highlighting dining, shopping, girls’ getaway weekends and shopping packages.

“Atlanta is the draw,” Bishop said, when talking about the third strategy.

“We always promote and tie ourselves to Atlanta. Visitors don’t see city lines.” She said Dunwoody is perfect for those who may want to experience what downtown Atlanta has to offer, while staying in a location that can be more affordable, is safe and has free parking.

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Tourism office recently named a new director, Jennifer Cruce, whom Paul calls a “real jewel for the city.” Cruce formerly was a marketing manager for Turner Broadcasting Co. “I’m very excited to be here,” she said when she was only about five days on the job. “There are new and exciting things happening here, particularly the City Center and Performing Arts Center,” which she added would bring more meeting space to the city that can be leveraged when trying to draw groups into town.

Duwoody’s CVB and Sandy Springs’ Hospitality & Tourism offices exist thanks to each city’s hotel/motel sales tax. By law, a portion of revenue from the tax must support tourism and promotion of the city, while some goes into the cities’ general funds. In Dunwoody, 40 percent goes to the CVB, while 60 percent goes to the general fund. In Sandy Springs, 32 percent goes to the hospitality board, 28.5 percent goes into the city’s general fund, and 39 percent goes CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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to the Georgia World Congress Center. Sandy Springs’ hotel sales tax rate is 7 percent, while Dunwoody’s is 5 percent, the minimum allowed by law.

And both cities say that what works for one is good for the other. It doesn’t hurt Dunwoody that Sandy Springs has Pill Hill, and it doesn’t hurt Sandy Springs that Dunwoody has Perimeter Mall.

Paul said that as the cities are trying to come together to look at how to market the Perimeter area from a business and development point of view, it’s likely they will together look at how to market hospitality and tourism in the area at some point.

“It’s a friendly competition,” Bishop said of Dunwoody and its neighboring cities. “We recognize that none of us can stand on our own. Atlanta’s the draw, but each community around Atlanta has something unique to offer, so we want to work together and promote each other, because what we don’t have Roswell has, what Roswell or Marietta doesn’t have, Dunwoody or Sandy Springs does.”

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2011 $3.29

2012 $3.20

2013 $3.51

2014 $3.58

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Sources: cities of Sandy Springs and Dunwoody budgets Hotel occupancy for the Perimeter Center, which includes Sandy Springs, Dunwoody and Brookhaven, has increased since 2010.

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Book Sale Wednesday, Dec. 10, 12-6 p.m. – Friends of the Northside Library hold a book sale. Dec. 10 for Friends members only. Free. Sale open to the public: Dec. 11, 2-6 p.m.; Dec. 13, 1-5 p.m. and Dec. 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Northside Branch Library, 3295 Northside Pkwy., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Call 404814-3508 or email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us for further details.

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Less Stress Wednesday, Dec. 3, 10-11 a.m. – TurningPoint Breast Cancer Rehabilitation hosts “Mindful Meditation - Techniques to Aid Healing for the Breast Cancer Survivor.” Evidence has shown that stress reduction programs have positive and measurable effects on many health problems, including breast cancer. Free and open to survivors and their caregivers. 8010 Roswell Rd., Suite 120, Sandy Springs, 30350. RSVP to 770-360-9271 or staff@myturningpoint.org.

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In the Garden Room, Heritage Sandy Springs Museum, 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328.

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Mental Health Forum Saturday, Dec. 13, 2-4:30 p.m. – Join others for an open discussion led by moderator Vikki Hankins with speakers who share their personal stories about mental illness. The forum aims to help end the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness, and open the door to solutions. Free. All

are welcome. Suggested audiences: elders, adults, college. Buckhead Branch Library, in the Meeting Room, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305.

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Turtle Tours Saturday, Dec. 13, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Heritage

Sandy Springs’ “Turtle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for children ages 2-5, continues. In this program, join museum mascots Spring and Sandy, as they “celebrate the season.” Free; donations encouraged. No reservations required. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, email: kbrigance@heritagesandysprings.org, call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

Winter Holiday Craft Saturday, Dec. 13, 1-4 p.m. – Children ages

5-12 can drop in any time with parents and caregivers to make a winter holiday craft. Free and open to all. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. Email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us or call 404-814-3500 to find out more.

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Family Musical Thursday, Dec. 4, 10:30 a.m. –The Mar-

cus Jewish Community Center Atlanta presents “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” Laugh and sing along with Alexander’s misadventures in this one-act musical. Recommended for ages 4-10. Tickets, $10-$20. Additional shows: Dec. 7, 2 and 4 p.m.; Dec. 11, 10:30 a.m.; Dec. 14, 2 and 4 p.m. Morris & Rae Frank Theatre, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For information and tickets, visit: www.atlantajcc.org/boxoffice or call 678-812-4002.

High School Musical, Jr. Sunday, Dec. 14, 11 a.m. – The Epstein

School presents Disney’s “High School Musical, Jr.,” about the students of East High dealing with first love, friends and family, while balancing classes and extracurricular activities. Tickets: $10-$20.

Additional shows: Dec. 14, 4 p.m.; Dec. 15, 4:30 p.m.; Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m. The Epstein School Playhouse, 335 Colewood Way, Sandy Springs, 30328.

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Heritage Hall, the lower level of Heritage Sandy Springs, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. For details, call 404-851-9111 or email: events@heritagesandysprings.org.

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Tied Up With Strings Friday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m. – Join the Atlanta Gay

Men’s Chorus as they launch the holiday season at The Cathedral of St. Philip. The 34th annual event features traditional carols to up-tempo holiday favorites, so there’s something for everyone.

Additional shows, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 and 8 p.m.

Ice cream social follows 2 p.m. show. General admission: $35; VIP admission: $45. Go to: www. voicesofnote.org/agmc to purchase tickets. 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30305. Contact Hillary Jones at 404-365-1067 or hjones@stphilipscathedral.org for additional information.

Christmas Trees Saturday, Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. – Pick up your Christmas tree ordered from The Buckhead Optimist Club. New for 2014, trees, wreaths and garland must be pre-ordered online by Dec. 4 from: www.nbca.org/OptimistTreeSale.htm. Also available for pick up on Dec. 7, 1-4 p.m. No walk up sales.

Trees, $35-$200; wreaths, $15 and up. Portion of profits benefit the Brookhaven Boys and Girls Club.

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German Christmas Market Saturday, Dec. 6, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. – Atlanta Inter-

national School holds its annual holiday experience! Market features refreshments, traditional beeswax candle dipping, craft activities for kids, photo opportunity with St. Nicholas, gift items from many vendors, live entertainment. Free admission and open to all. 2890 North Fulton Dr., Atlanta, 30305. Call 404-841-3840 or go to: www.aischool.org to learn more.

Family Day Saturday, Dec. 6, 12-2 p.m. – It’s Family Day at the Spruill Art Gallery! Check out the market’s locally-crafted gifts and décor while the kids get creative. Free and open to the community. Market hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Late night shopping until 8 p.m.

Thursdays in December. Jewelry trunk show Dec. 13, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Market continues through Dec. 23. 4681 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30346. Call 770-394-4019 or visit: spruillgallery. blogspot.com for details.

A Christmas Story Saturday, Dec. 6, 6-8 p.m. – Walk into the

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Global Gift Market Sunday, Dec. 7, 12-4 p.m. – Covenant Pres-

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Tree Lighting Thursday, Dec. 11, 6-8 p.m. – The Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce wants you to celebrate the season at “Light Up Brookhaven Holiday Tree Lighting.” Enjoy photos with Santa, music, refreshments. Free and open to the public. Briarwood Park, 2235 Briarwood Way, Brookhaven, 30319. Email: mike.vescio@brookhavenga.gov for further information.

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Holiday lights make communities sparkle Editor’s note: Hoping to be blinded by the holiday lights this year? During the past several Decembers, we have introduced our readers to the residents behind some of the biggest and brightest holiday yard displays in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. This year, we revisit some of our favorites from past years. (File photos.)

452 Grenock Circle, NE, Sandy Springs Greg Talbott says his annual holiday show features 22,000 lights, inflatables and plastic yard decorations. “Tell everybody to look for the glow in the sky,” he said.

Why does he put it up year after year?

“I just enjoy it,” he said. “The kids enjoy it. ... I guess you could call it a labor of love.”

4142 Randall Court, NW, Buckhead Dr. John H. Giesler says he may not set up quite as many inflatables in his yard this year as he has in years past, but his light show on Randall Court will continue. “It’s Christmas,” he said.

5431 Trowbridge Drive and the Redfield subvision, Dunwoody In past years, Alison Norris’ annual lakeside light show on Trowbridge Drive has attracted so many gawkers that at times she couldn’t even get down her driveway. Norris says she may dim her holiday display a bit this year, but says she still plans to decorate her yard and house.

901 Winall Down Road, Brookhaven Will Dr. Gary Gropper return his annual display of inflatables this year? “Is it the holidays?” he says.

Gropper fills his yard at the corner of Winall Down and Peachtree-Dunwoody roads with 150 inflatables that in the past have included anything from snowmen to Santa Claus to the leg lamp from the movie “A Christmas Story.” This year he plans to add a new acquisition – a huge Mr. Potato Head with a bushy mustache that looks very much like its owner’s.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for some true Hall of Fame holiday light displays, check out the Redfields subdivision in Dunwoody. The neighborhood holds a competition each year for the best-decorated homes. Neighbors vote on the displays on the Sunday before Christmas and give out awards in categories such as “best door” or “kids’ choice.” If someone takes the top prize three times, they are enshrined in the Redfield lights Hall of Fame.

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Congregation Or VeShalom ready for its annual Hanukkah Bazaar

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Six women sat around a folding table. They filled dough with eggplant to make a special holiday treat.

And they talked.

They were making burekas, a Turkish pastry they sell at Congregation Or VeShalom bake sales. As they worked, they talked of the old days and the old ways.

“We’re all related in the synagogue,” Rachiel Berger said, joking that her family would advise against saying anything bad about anybody they knew because “you’re probably related.’”

The six were among about 40 people gathered to prepare for Or VeShalom’s 39th annual Hanukkah Bazaar. The Brookhaven congregation is celebrating its 100th year this year. These women have known one another for years.

Or VeShalom is a Sephardic synagogue, meaning members are descended from Jewish families that fled Spain in the 15th century. They departed after the government there tried to force Jews to convert to Christianity. “Many chose to leave,” Renee Feldman said.

“They couldn’t go to Italy because it was Catholic, and they couldn’t go to France because it was also Catholic.”

Those who didn’t go to England or Holland spread around the Mediterranean and settled in the Island of Rhodes area of Greece, and in Smyrna, Turkey, Feldman said.

“We try to maintain Sephardic traditions,” Grace Benator said. “Instead of Yiddish, we speak Ladino,” which, she explains, is a Spanish-based language, whereas Yiddish is a German-based language.

Food also differentiates Sephardic Jews from other Jewish groups, the women said. Women from Or VeShalom gather every Tuesday to bake burekas for the

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Benator said being a Sephardic Jew, to her, means enjoying Mediterranean food like the burekas she has been making with friends throughout her life.

“The tradition of baking together came from when the women would gather to bake for the Sabbath,” Feldman said. “They would share and bake together, so that’s what we do. We didn’t have freezers and caterers in those days so you had to get together the week before and do all of the preparations.”

In 1914, after a group from Turkey had formed a Sephardic synagogue and another group from Greece formed a separate Sephardic synagogue in the area, the two joined to create the current congregation, Benator said.

“They just used to meet in homes for services,” she said, adding that the building where Congregation Or VeShalom exists currently on North Druid Hills Road is the third building the congregation has used as a synagogue. The original was on Central Avenue, she said.

Betty Handmacher, who lives in Dunwoody, said her grandfather, Moreno Benbenisty, was one of the founders of Congregation Or VeShalom.

“So was my father, Louis Cohen,” Sarah Diamond added, as she folded another bureka into its flag shape.

Born in Atlanta in 1937, Rachiel Berger says all the women at the table that day were born within three years and three months of one another.

Benator said her mother is the first cousin of Handmacher’s mother. Handmacher sat at the end of the table, manipulating a bureka so the eggplant filling wouldn’t spill out during baking.

Berger explained that her grandfather on her mother’s side, who lived in Turkey, sent her father to America to avoid conscription into World War II. “It was time to go into the draft, and the regime was very anti-Semitic, so his father sent him to this country,” she said.

While her father did return to Turkey before finally emigrating to the United States, Berger added that he was married nine years before he could afford to bring her mother to America.

“It was about nine years before he could make enough money to bring back my mother and her younger brother,” Berger said. “They were in Turkey,

Grace Benator, left, and Renee Feldman make burekas.

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so my grandparents had, like, a second family. Can you imagine being married nine years before you could get your family together?”

The women preparing for the Or VeShalom baking have known one another for years. Benator said that her mother-in-law and fellow baker Feldman’s father are sister and brother.

Benator, Feldman and Stella Firestone’s families shared a duplex when the girls were growing up, with one family upstairs and the other downstairs. “When they wanted to talk on the phone, they’d knock on the wall with a broom and we’d pick up the phone,” Benator said.

“We thought life was easy,” Feldman said. Firestone joked, “We didn’t realize we had it so bad.”

“We used to hate going to Hebrew school,” Berger laughed as the other ladies chimed in about walking to Central Avenue four times a week. “We were petrified of the rabbi,” Berger said. “He was tough, but he was good.”

The tradition continues, Berger said, with her granddaughter who helps make burekas. “She calls and says ‘Mimi, my bureka box is empty,’” Berger said. “She’s carrying on the tradition.”

“There’s no such thing as a bad bureka,” Benator says from the other end of the table. She admits that some of them don’t look perfect, but said she believes the burekas and Mediterranean cuisine are what keeps people coming back.

“It’s very authentic,” Benator said.

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As the recipient of the Brookhaven Clubs 2014 Teen of the Year Award and part of the Boys and Girls Club College Bound program, Kingston has been a part of a wide range of activities that have helped shape him from a young boy to a confident leader in his community.

While speaking to him about his creation and involvement with “Passport To Manhood,” a program that targets young boys at the transition from middle school to high school to teach them about making responsible and healthy decisions, Kingston said he was excited about being an example to the boys.

“The kids can look up to me, and I love helping people out,” he said.

Ziggy Asfaw, executive director of the club, said he has observed Kingston grow up and blossom into the dedicated, ambitious individual he is today. “I have all the trust in the world for [Kingston’s] ‘just go and do’ [attitude], ” he said.

Going and doing is just what Kingston sounds ready for. After having the experience with the College Bound Program, Kingston spent the summer as a paid intern for KPMG LLP, a tax firm in Atlanta, learning about accounting and tax auditing. This internship offered experience, networking and real life af-

firmation for his interest in forensic accounting.

Kingston explained that this opportunity gave him the chance to really set his interest in this as a career – with his ultimate goal of working for the FBI. After spending so much time leading activities, engaging members of the clubs and volunteering, Kingston said, “I don’t really see volunteering as volunteering anymore, it’s just something fun to do.”

What’s Next: Kingston hopes to attend Syracuse University, a school he says values community service and leadership.

This article was written by Sara Wren, a student at the Atlanta International School.

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PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE

Above, Mount Vernon Presbyterian students Akim Abdiyer, left, and Carson Barber work on a mechanical hand the students are building as part of a class project.

At right, Alex Linkous tries out one of the prosthetic hands students at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School are making for him using the school’s new 3-D printer.

Mount Vernon students use 3-D printer to build a new hand

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Alex Linkous seemed more than a little bit excited.

“It’s absolutely fantastic!” Linkous said as he watched groups of Mount Vernon Presbyterian High School students using drills and screwdrivers construct colorful, hard plastic devices that looked like robotic hands.

“When I was little, I never dreamed I would have a normal hand.”

Linkous was born without fully formed fingers on his right hand. These Mount Vernon students were making prosthetic hands for him as a class project.

When they complete their work, most likely in December, the 18-yearold college student from Auburn, Ga., should have one, two or even three different working prostheses made specially to fit him.

The devices, he said, will allow him to do things such as take a sip from a water bottle while he’s driving, and using his good hand to steer the car.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the differences between how I go through my daily life with the prosthesis,” he said. “I’m really interested in seeing how I tie my shoes. ... It’ll be different, for sure.”

On Nov. 20, Linkous and his mother, Adora Engstrom, dropped by teacher T. J. Edwards’ class at Mount Vernon for a fitting of the prosthetic hands the students were assembling after manufacturing the plastic parts with the school’s new 3-D printer. Edwards put the project together for his technology, engineering and design class to give his students a chance to learn to use the 3-D printer in a way that could help some-

one.

Designs for the hands, he said, came from a nonprofit called e-NABLE. He found the organization a few months ago through social media. The nonprofit’s website provides plans for people with 3-D printers and matches them with people who need the prostheses.

About the same time Edwards found the organization, Angstrom saw a television news story about a similar eNABLE project. Linkous signed up on the e-NABLE website, and soon the organization put him in touch with the folks at Mount Vernon.

Members of Edwards’ class made a mold of Linkous’ hand, and using a cast from the mold and photographs, then created prosthetic hands contoured to fit him. The designs came from e-NABLE, and each had its own name – the Talon, the Beast and the Raptor.

“I think it’s just awesome,” Linkous said, as he tried on one of the devices to see how it worked and how well it fit.

“See how it moves as I move it? I didn’t think I’d be this happy.”

Cathey Craig, a family friend, was watching via Engstrom’s iPhone. “Is she crying?” Linkous asked, surprised. She was.

After an hour of tinkering in class in November, the students will work out some last-minute kinks in fitting the hands to Linkous, and then present him with the final products in December.

And Linkous? By the end of the class, he was so pleased, he was ready to try to give someone else a hand.

“I’m thinking of buying a 3-D printer myself and helping other people by printing hands,” Linkous said.

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Officials break ground at future Heards Ferry Elementary site

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Next August, when students fill the hallways of Heards Ferry Elementary for the first day of school, it will be on Powers Ferry Road in a building the school system says will serve as a prototype.

On Nov. 13, it was the grownups on hand as officials from Fulton County Schools and the city of Sandy Springs broke ground for the school, which is under construction now and will replace the old school on Heards Ferry Road.

“Every principal has a dream to open a new building, and my dream is becoming a reality,” Heards Ferry Elementary Principal Lisa Nash said at the groundbreaking.

“I know that the spring is going to be a bittersweet time because hundreds of thousands of students have gone through the halls at the Heards Ferry Elementary that stands today,” Nash continued.

“But it will be an even more exciting time when we open the new doors of our new facility in the fall. Our students are so lucky to be getting a new facility.

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Architects went over some of the school’s features. “This school provides everything it provided before and more,” he said, explaining that it would have smart board technology and break-out spaces for teachers to have one-on-one meetings with students.

Located on about 14 acres at 6151 Powers Ferry Road, the three-story school building will be a prototype for future school construction because the design addresses limited availability of large land parcels in the area, school officials said.

Classrooms will be stacked on the east wing of the building and functions such as the media center, auditorium, gym, cafeteria and administrative offices will be housed on the west side.

Patrick Burke, deputy superintendent of operations for Fulton County Schools, said the school’s search for land required some assistance. “We’ve been working hand in glove with the team at the city of Sandy Springs since we really began this search for land on this project,” he said.

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The new Heards Ferry Elementary School is scheduled to open next year on Powers Ferry Road.

to accommodate 850 students, with the ability to expand to house 1,000 children.

Burke said the space addresses Sandy Springs’ school population growth.

“In Sandy Springs we’ve been seeing enrollment growth,” he said. “I know we see this area as a stable population, but really over the past five years, it’s been

the most rapidly growing part of Fulton County for [us].”

The Heards Ferry school move will also allow for Riverwood High School to make needed expansions, Burke added.

The construction is being paid for through a one-cent education sales tax approved by voters in 2011.

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iday safety flyers in those areas as well,” Momon added.

Police also are warning holiday shoppers to be careful to protect themselves from thieves.

While increased police presence may deter some criminals and prevent crimes of opportunity, Dunwoody Traffic Enforcement Officer Christopher Irwin said people need to stay aware of their surroundings and take precautions like putting valuables inside the trunk of the car before going shopping (or to a place like a gym, where people commonly lock purses and laptops in trunks).

“People go shopping and they’ll come out and put stuff in their trunk, but what people don’t realize is that the criminals are actually out in the parking lots watching,” Irwin said.

Officer Carlos Nino of Brookhaven said shoppers should let police know if they see anything suspicious. “The public is our extra set of eyes, and if you see something, say something,” he said.

Police said shoppers also need to protect themselves. Busy shopping areas, such as malls, grocery stores and shopping centers, typically increase off-duty officers to provide extra coverage during

thieves want to steal.

Some car doors are left unlocked. Criminals will walk through rows of parked cars at the mall, looking inside vehicles for items like laptops, cellphones and electronic gifts, Irwin said.

“That gentleman sitting in his car,” Irwin said, motioning across Perimeter Mall’s parking lot. “He’s typing on ELLEN ELDRIDGE his phone. Now, it’s Dunwoody Traffic Enforcement Officer Christopher around lunch time so he could be at lunch Irwin says people need to stay aware of or he could be looktheir surroundings and take precautions. ing out for a security the holidays, but they can’t be everyguard or a cop to warn where, officers said. people on foot, hypothetically speak“The mall does have security; howing.” ever, you can’t be everywhere at once.

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“This time of year is no different than any other, aside from the fact you have more cyber criminals out there trying to get their fill,” he said.

Joe Gray, a security researcher and consultant, said his best advice for online shoppers is to make sure their antivirus program is up-to-date and that they’re shopping on secure websites, and “definitely don’t shop online in public places like the library.”

Tips for staying safe during holiday shopping Police in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs offer these 10 suggestions for ways to stay safe this holiday season. Whether you’re going out of town or staying home to shop or to celebrate, remember to stay aware of your surroundings.

• Have your keys in hand when approaching your vehicle. Check the back seat and around the car before getting in.

• Do not leave packages visible in your car windows. Lock them in the trunk or, if possible, take them directly home.

• Set your home lights on a timer system when you go out, or leave a light or television on.

• After the holidays are over, don’t leave boxes on the curb. Cut them up and fit them into trash or recycle them so criminals can’t take inventory of your new electronics and other gifts.

• Consider alternate options such as one-time or multi-use disposable credit cards or money orders to pay for your merchandise at online stores and auction sites.

• If you are shopping with children, make a plan in case you are separated. Never let them go to the restroom alone.

• Shop with companies you know and trust. Check for background information if you plan to buy from a new or unfamiliar company.

• Avoid wearing expensive jewelry and avoid carrying a purse or wallet. They are the prime targets of criminals in crowded shopping areas, transportation terminals, bus stops, on buses and other rapid transit.

• Donate only to a recognized charitable organization.

• Call 911 anytime you see something suspicious.

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Police Blotter

 7700

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 19, burglary was reported at a public storage facility.

The following incidents and arrests are some but not all, of the reports filed with Sandy Springs police from Nov. 8 through Nov. 21.

The following information was provided by the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY  5700 block of Roswell Road—On Nov.

 500

block Summit Springs Drive—On Nov. 19, burglary was reported at a residence.

 900

block of Harbor Point Pkwy—On Nov. 19, a burglary was reported.

CAPTAIN STEVE ROSE, SSPD srose@sandyspringsga.gov

men were arrested.

16, police responded to a robbery report just before 5:30 a.m. A cab driver picked  8100 block of Colquitt Road—On up a man in Brookhaven and took him to Nov. 16, a man found his front door the Mosaic Apartments on Roswell Road. forced open and his apartment ranThe man asked to go to building 35 and, sacked. An X-Box system and an Acer upon arrival, the driver was struck in the laptop were taken. head by the man who told him, in Spanish, “I’m going to kill you.” When the  Gables Lane—On Nov. 18, a woman driver ran off, the robber took the taxi reported someone entered her apartment containing the driver’s wallet and personand took boots and a watch, each valal effects. The taxi ued at $250, and was located a short left. She reported Read more of the time later and dethat she found her Police Blotter online at tectives are followapartment door www.reporternewspapers.net ing up on leads inpartially open last cluding those from week. She suspects similar incidents in her ex-husband.

Brookhaven.  200 block of Mount Paran Road—On  6000 block of Barfield Road—On Nov. 19, a woman said she found damNov. 16, officers received a robbery call age to a window and later discovered that around 4 p.m. They were told that a man a burglary occurred. Video shows that was kidnapped and robbed by two school three men were at the location, outside acquaintances at the area known as the around 10:30 p.m. Around midnight, “Hub.” they entered the building and were gone 15 to 20 minutes later. All were wearBURGLA RY ing gloves and had cover over their fac 1800 block of Winding Drive—On es. Several computers were taken from Nov. 16, an employee of Veridian at Santhe building. dy Springs Apartments said a television  600 block of Fair Oaks Manor—On was taken from the fitness center. The Nov. 20, a resident reported that somevideo showed a 5-foot-8-inch man, who time between 11:30 p.m. and 6:15 a.m., looked to be about 150 pounds, wearsomeone came into the home and took ing a blue zip-up hoodie and jeans, inside two phones and a messenger bag that the fitness center stealing the television at were lying on a chair. A family member around 5 a.m. The employee said the othsaid she found two front windows uner man came in and wanted to take his locked; one wide open. The stolen items tablet and demanded his pass code. They were within view of the window. He also fought for a bit before the man left the said he saw a suspicious car that mornroom, with the employee chasing him. ing. The car came down the street, turned They ran to another room where anothinto a neighbor’s driveway, sat with the er man helped the first man hold down lights out for a few minutes, and then left the employee, taking belongings from his slowly. pockets and shaving his head. The two

TH EFTS  5300

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 15, a 31-year-old woman said she left work last Thursday and forgot to take her coat. She realized it when she got home and called to tell the other employees to stash it until she came back to work. She was informed that the coat was missing. Internal video showed another employee taking the coat. That girl was called and after a couple of fumbling excuses, said she would return it.

 5600

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 15, a 26-year-old man said someone went into his apartment closet and took $500 cash. During this time, his sister and brother-in-law lived with him and apartment maintenance was inside the apartment.

 6600

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 16, hair salon employees reported that a juvenile male walked out on the $14.95 haircut because it was not done right; On Nov. 17, a man said he was at a gym and, while he was on the phone, someone took his jacket.

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block of Mount Vernon Highway—On Nov. 18, employees of a sporting goods store reported that a man took seven Nike Thermal shirts in his backpack and then ran out of the store. The man was about 30 to 35 years old and about 6-foot-2-inches tall with a bald head. He wore a long tan jacket and black pants with Nike shoes.

 4900

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 18, a man went to a grocery store to get gas. As he did so, he left his car doors open when he was at the pay window talking to the employee. When he walked back to his car, he saw a man wearing a blue jacket and brown cargo pants parked in a white car next to his.

The car abruptly left. The man then discovered his phone and suitcase missing.

 1100

block of Hammond Drive—Employees of a grocery store said a 60-yearold woman took some deli food items and left without paying. They know this woman because she has come into the store with deli food items that she said was not good and demanded a refund.

She was stopped outside and the items taken from her. She left in a gray BMW.

THEFT FROM VEHICLES  100

block of Angus Trail on Nov. 15

 1200

block of Indian Trail on Nov. 16

 1155

Mt. Vernon Highway on Nov. 16

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 8600

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 17, an employee of a drywall company reported that they fired an employee recently for stealing. On review, they found that he had been stealing from the warehouse for a year or longer. The stolen items include scaffolds, lasers, dollies, drills and pole guns.

Nov. 17

 7500

 6300

block of Roswell Road—On Nov. 17, employees of a grocery store said around 4:30 p.m. a man took a box of chicken wings and left the store after being confronted by loss prevention staff.

He left in a black Chevy with six or seven other men in the car.

 800

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 1100

block of Hammond Drive—On Nov. 18, a man said his laptop, amplifiers, pressure washer, drill and 42-inch television were taken from a hotel maintenance room.

 Unlisted

address—A Roswell-area doctor reported that an employee is believed to have stolen a prescription pad containing the doctor’s DEA number and used the prescriptions to obtain Oxycodone and Hydrocodone at area drugs stores including the CVS on Roswell Road. www.ReporterNewspapers.net |

7600 block of Blanton Place on Nov. 17 200 block of Westminster Place on Nov. 17

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 700 block of Orchard Point on Nov. 17  5900 block of Roswell Road on Nov. 17 

300 block of Wynland Trace on

block of Peachtree-Dunwoody Road on Nov. 17

 6350

Roswell Road (x2) on Nov. 17

 500

block of Mt. Vernon Highway on Nov. 17

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Roswell Road (x2) on Nov. 17

 500

Northridge Road (x4) on Nov. 17

 510

Mt. Vernon Highway on Nov. 17

 800

block of Mt. Vernon Highway on Nov. 18

 1155

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Perimeter Center West on Nov.

 5000

block of Peachtree-Dunwoody Road on Nov. 18 CONTINUED ON PAGE 26

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Sandy Springs Police Blotter CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25  875

Johnson Ferry Road on Nov. 18

 7889

Roswell Road on Nov. 20

during a 1999 arrest in Fulton County.

The mug shot associated with the man was not the victim.  No address reported—A man

F RA U D A

74-year old woman was contacted by police in Conyers and told they had arrested a man who had taken her Sears MasterCard information while she was at a home repair store in Sandy Springs. He used the card number in Conyers. They asked her to make a fraud report with police in order to prosecute the man with additional charges.

 No

address reported—Bank of America called police after they spoke with a woman wanting to cash a check for just under $700. The bank checked and found that the person on the account had placed a fraud alert on Nov. 4. The woman hurriedly left and got into a red sedan occupied by two men. They left the parking lot.

 1000

block of Jefferson Drive—On Nov. 17, a man said he was in the process of applying for a job when he was asked about his arrest record. He checked and found that someone had used his name

reported that he applied for a job online. He was hired by a company whose contact person was “Robert,” who said he would send a check for $2,500 to him. He did so and the complainant put the check into his account. After a couple of days, “Robert” called back asking the complainant to send $1,650 back to him.

The complainant said he would not until the check cleared. The complainant later found the check was no good.

AS S AULT  Roswell Road and I-285—On Nov. 19,

a woman called police just after 3 a.m. and reported that she and another woman and man were in a car returning from a bar on Roswell Road. During that time, the person in the back seat was punched in the face by the woman in the front seat. She was punched a few times and then kicked out of the car by the man.

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 8700 block of Roswell Road—On Nov.

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 400

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