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Sky isn’t fallingPDK addresses residents’ fears

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Salutatorian Catriona Geddes addresses her fellow graduates from Dunwoody High School at commencement exercises at North DeKalb Stadium on May 21. See additional

photos of local public and private high school graduations on pages18-19.

BY ELLEN [email protected]

Mark Th ompson said he moved from San-dy Springs to the Georgetown neighborhood in Dunwoody 14 years ago to fi nd easy access to major highways, good schools and a serene environment.

“I love the leafy neighborhoods,” Th ompson said.

His three children are age 9 and younger, and Th ompson said he’s sure they will all enjoy biking along soon-to-be-completed multiuse trails in their community. Th ey already use one in Brook Run Park, where they also plan to check out the new zip line courses.

In 2013, Georgetown got the city’s fi rst new park since Dunwoody incorporated in 2008. Th e 16-acre parcel sits between Chamblee-Dunwoody and North Shallowford roads, and

features an open playing fi eld, gazebo and regu-lation-size Bocce courts.

Georgetown Park will soon connect to Brook Run Park’s multi-use trail, which opened in 2013 and added the sec-ond phase in 2014. Th e trail allows residents to walk, jog or bike the nearly two-mile loop, and will soon connect to Georgetown Park, add-ing about another mile to the trail.

“It’s a very friendly area, people are social and like to get together,” Th ompson said about his community. “It’s been a great place to live.”

A decade ago, after Lyndsey Pearson moved to Georgetown with her husband and almost 2-year-old son, she and fi ve other moms start-ed a playgroup.


A long-standing court battle over park funds concluded May 26 with Dunwoody City Council’s approval of a $4 million set-tlement with DeKalb County.

DeKalb County will make a one-time $3.2 million grant to Dunwoody to be used toward the construction and development of the 5-acre Dunwoody Renaissance Park.

Additionally, the county will grant $500,000 toward updating the city’s mas-ter plan for parks and green space projects, and the county will grant $300,000 for con-struction of a great lawn at Brook Run Park.

According to city offi cials, $11.5 mil-lion was promised for Brook Run Park to DeKalb County voters in 2005 as part of a $96-million bond package. Th e county spent $4 million on the park, city offi cials said.

Councilman Doug Th ompson thanked the commissioners, lawyers, mediators, In-terim DeKalb CEO Lee May and “every-body who was involved in this” for coming together and approving the agreement. Th e

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Where You Live

Lyndsey Pearson, with daughters Adelyn, left, and Riley, has lived in the Georgetown neighborhood since 2005. She describes the area as a 1950s-style community with modern touches.

Pearson and her husband thought their 3-bedroom, 2-bath home would just be a starter place, but after home improvements and building neighborhood relationships, there are no plans to move.

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New bike trail to connect PATH400 to Perimeter area

PCIDs propose new lanes on Peachtree-Dunwoody beneath I-285

Th e Perimeter Community Im-provement Districts propose widening Peachtree-Dunwoody Road as it goes un-der I-285 in order to add new bicycle and car lanes.

“Getting the extra space under that bridge does a lot of great things,” said Jen-nifer Harper, program director for the PCIDs.

I-285 now crosses four lanes of Peachtree-Dunwoody. Th e PCIDs’ plan would remove dirt to expand the area be-neath the I-285 bridge and create two new car lanes and a bicycle path. Under the plan, Peachtree-Dunwoody would have two southbound lanes, two north-bound lanes and two turning lanes lead-ing to I-285.

Th e bike path could tie into the bike path planned as part of the redesign and reconstruction of the Ga. 400/I-285 inter-section.

Th e project could be completed as soon as the end of 2017, if accelerated fund-ing can be found. Using traditional road construction funds, the project would be completed by early 2019, according to the PCIDs. –Joe Earle

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State and local government offi cials say they have worked out a way to pay for an extension of PATH400 through the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange.

Sandy Springs City Council is includ-ing $1 million in the city’s 2016 budget to pay part of the cost of including a seg-ment of the multi-use trail in the redesign and reconstruction of the Ga. 400/I-285 intersection.

Other money for the $4 to $5 million project will come from the PATH Foun-dation and the Georgia Department of Transportation, representatives of those groups said.

Eventually, offi cials said, the trail could connect to PATH400 in Buck-

head and to other trails extending north of I-285. Th at would tie Sandy Springs into a network of trails, including Atlan-ta’s BeltLine, Mayor Rusty Paul said.

“A lot of people are interested in con-necting by bicycle,” Paul said. “Th e more people we can get to work [by bike], the fewer cars we’ve got on the streets.”

Sandy Springs Assistant City Man-ager Bryant Poole said the trail segment included in the Ga. 400/I-285 project would run from Johnson Ferry Road to Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. Th e Pe-rimeter Center Improvement Districts plan to widen Peachtree-Dunwoody to add bike and car lanes as it runs be-neath I-285.

PATH Foundation Executive Di-rector Ed McBrayer said the exten-sion “was essential for us to get the trail through the Ga. 400/I-285 intersec-tion because we are trying to connect the area with trails.”

“We’re really connecting the whole Perimeter Center and Sandy Springs down to PATH400,” he said.

Th e fi rst half-mile-long segment of PATH400 opened in Buckhead earlier this year and another portion is under construction.

Meanwhile, Georgia Department of Transportation offi cials say a bike parth will be included in the overhaul of the Ga. 400/I-285 intersection, a project expected to cost about $1 billion.

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The proposed new confi guration of Peachtree-Dunwoody Road, looking north as it

passes beneath I-285.

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BY TITUS FALODUNDuring a luncheon sponsored by

the Dunwoody Chamber of Com-merce at the 57th Fighter Club Res-taurant, DeKalb-Peachtree Airport’s (PDK) Interim General Manager Ma-rio Evans addressed the past, present and future of the airport and its rela-tionship with the surrounding com-munity.

Earlier this month, four people died after a small aircraft took off from PDK and collided with a high-way barrier during a forced landing attempt on I-285, according to the preliminary report released by the Na-tional Transportation Safety Board.

“Th e only reason why it was publi-cized is because you don’t hear about airplane crashes that often,” Evans told the luncheon crowd on May 26.

Reaction from local residents has been one of concern and worry that Ev-ans described as “the sky is falling” pan-ic.

“Th ere’s nothing falling,” he said. “Aviation is one of the safest industries, transportation wise. Th e last fatality that I know of is back in ‘78 that happened here at PDK.”

Th e NTSB has said the investigation of the fatal crash may take up to a year to conclude, and Evans is confi dent PDK will be absolved of any blame.

“Th e only thing that directly links PDK to the crash is that he [the pilot] had bought 20 gallons of fuel here,” Evans ex-plained. “And that wasn’t enough to infect his tank.”

Evans spent a majority of the lun-cheon highlighting PDK’s growing eco-nomic transformation. PDK ranks, he said, in the top 10 in terms of busiest general aviation (everything but mili-tary and commercial planes) airports in both the state (second) and the country (ninth).

“I’m nothing but a big landlord,” Ev-ans said. “Th e airport is an enterprise fund for the county; we generate mon-ey.”

According to PDK’s fi nancial re-cords, the airport’s budget was more than $12.9 million last year, which in-cluded a $5 million operating cost.

General tax funds do not support the airport, so Evans relies on convincing lo-cal business leaders and politicians that by providing fi nancially, PDK is an in-vestment in the community.

Having a highly popular and func-tioning general aviation airport helps the metro Atlanta area attract what he called “surge events,” such as profession-al sports All-Star games and the NCAA’s Final Four he said.

But the taking off of PDK fi nancial-ly does not mean ev-eryone is along for the ride, as residents near the airport have expressed concerns about the noise lev-el, and disapproval of

the usage of surrounding property that some Brookhaven residents want to be-come a public park.

“Th e culprit behind the noise is the older technology aircrafts that will be phased out at the end of 2015,” Evans assured, citing a government mandate.

As for the property contention, Ev-ans sees that as a misrepresentation of PDK’s land.

“Th at area that the citizens call ‘green space’ is a runway protection zone for the airport,” Evans explained. “We have eight of them around the airport.”

Th e Federal Aviation Administration granted PDK permission to sell the area, but only if it sold at fair market value.

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New DeKalb city would operate with a surplus, study says

BY TIM DARNELLSupporters of a city of LaVista Hills

say a new UGA study proves their pro-posed municipality could provide better services than DeKalb County without a tax increase, and with a surplus to boot.

“We know there is enough of a tax base in this community to provide an economic revival through cityhood,” said Allen Venet, chairman of LaVis-ta Hills Yes. “From our perspective, we absolutely expected the study to prove what we’ve been advocating.”

On May 15, the Carl Vinson Insti-tute of the University of Georgia re-leased a feasibility study showing a city of LaVista Hills could operate with a $1.7 million surplus while providing police, parks, planning, zoning, business development and road maintenance.

The study found that a city of LaVis-ta Hills would include:

• 67,444 people (64.5 percent white, 16.9 percent black, and 15.8 percent Hispanic)

• A median income of $59,200• A poverty level of 14 percent• 439 miles of roads• 50 acres of parks• $34,488,546 in annual expenses

• $36,903,971 in annual revenue

The city’s largest budget expenses would be for police services, at $9.9 mil-lion, and public works at $3.3 million.

Voters in the proposed city’s bound-aries will vote on Nov. 3 whether to in-corporate. If passed, LaVista Hills would hold its first municipal elections on the same day as Georgia’s 2016 presidential primary.

The city’s first official day of opera-tions would be July 1, 2016.

LaVista Hills Yes is also soliciting do-nations to help get their pro-cityhood message out.

“We’re a volunteer group devoted to cityhood; it’s a good idea for us and DeKalb County, and we need money for yard signs, mailings and town hall meet-ings,” Venet said.

The new study adopted significant-ly more conservative spending projec-tions than previous studies. It assumes an increased police force of 104 officers, which will represent a three-fold in-crease in the number of officers on pa-trol in LaVista Hills.

The study also assumed much lower HOST tax credit revenues for the city, consistent with new HOST legislation and the reduction in HOST proceeds allocation.

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‘Operation Vittles’ lifted Berlin residents after the war

It was his job. Th at’s how Vernon Whitman describes his part in the Ber-lin Airlift.

Others may recall the 14-month air-lift as one of the great international showdowns of the Cold War or as a sig-nal humanitarian eff ort, but Whitman remembers it a diff erent way. It was sim-ply his assignment as a young Navy pi-lot.

“It was a job they were doing and they had to have people to do it,” the 90-year-old retired Delta Air Lines pi-lot said as he sat in the den of his Sandy Springs home one recent day.

“You really didn’t feel like you were fi ghting the Russians. It was a human-itarian thing. You just felt sorry for the people who were being starved out.”

In 1947, Whitman was part of a Navy transport unit stationed in Guam. He fl ew a plane the Navy called a R5D, a military plane similar to the commer-cial DC-4. In November 1948, he and his squadron were ordered to Germany to join the airlift supplying Berlin.

After World War II, the allied victors had divided Germany and its former capital, Berlin, into zones. In Berlin, the Soviets controlled the eastern zone and the U.S., British and French each con-trolled a section in the west. But Ber-lin stood 100 miles inside the portion of Germany set aside for Soviet control, and the Soviets felt the entire city should all be under their sway.

To try to force a change, the Sovi-ets closed rail and road access to Berlin, cutting it off from outside supplies. Th e western allies responded with the air-lift. A nonstop line of supply planes fl ew loads of food, coal and other necessities from Frankfort to Berlin. Th e Ameri-cans nicknamed the mission “Operation Vittles.”

Th e airlift carried more than 2.3 mil-lion tons of supplies into Berlin, accord-ing to history.com. Whitman said the supply planes usually left Frankfort ev-ery three minutes. “We had a three min-ute interval,” he recalled. “At the worst weather, they’d move it to six minutes.”

He fl ew two round trips a day. He fl ew mostly at night, so he often couldn’t see the devastated city. He didn’t fully

realize how bad things were for res-idents of Berlin until some day-time fl ights took him close to bombed-out apartments. “Seeing how those peo-ple had to survive,” he said. “Peo-ple were out in the streets cleaning bricks just to re-build. ... In the daytime, I was amazed by the rubble.”

Other pilots were too. One began dropping candy on his fl ights. He’d tie small parachutes to the candy and drop them from the plane to children below.

Whitman got hooked on airplanes when he was growing up in Louisiana. One day when he was about 5 years old, he said, a barnstormer with an old single-engine monoplane was forced to land on the Whitman’s fi eld for re-pairs. Th e farm boy was captivated. “Af-ter that, my parents had to take me to the airport every Sunday after church,” he said. “Th at’s where I got bit.”

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy right out of high school and eventually was assigned to fl y transports in the Pacif-ic. Th at led to 125 fl ights on the Ber-lin Airlift.

Th is past March, Whitman had a chance to fl y again in one of the planes used in the airlift. Th e Berlin Airlift His-torical Association, based in New Jer-sey, brought one of the planes to Pine Mountain to recreate a “candy drop.” Whitman planned to visit the same plane at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport dur-ing its annual “Good Neighbor Day” air show on May 30.

Nearly seven decades later, he looks back at the Berlin Airlift as “a great thing.”

“If it hadn’t been for the airlift,” he said simply, “the Russians would have taken Berlin.”

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SPECIAL PHOTOS

Left, Vernon Whitman behind the controls of the R5D military plane he fl ew during the Berlin Airlift after WWII. Right, Whitman fl ew in a similar

plane last March, courtesy of the Berlin Airlift Historical Association.

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Th ere’s been a lot of interest in the current status and long- range outlook for DeKalb-Peachtree Airport’s Runway 9/27 Runway Protection Zone, which is 32 acres located opposite the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant west of Clairmont Road.

Most recently, the airport responded to a deliberately pub-licized eff ort by private citizens to facilitate unauthorized ac-cess to the property by posting the property against trespass-ing. Here’s some history, current facts and possibilities for the land’s future use.

First and foremost, the runway protection zone, known as “the RPZ,” is and has always been part of the airport since it was a Naval Air Station in WWII. Th e undeveloped land was reserved to provide a crash zone for aircraft using RW 9/27, the “crosswind runway” which was perpendicular to the air-port’s main runways.

After the war, the Feds transferred the airport property, known as PDK, to DeKalb County to serve civil aviation. In 2013, the Federal Aviation Administration approved the closure of RW 9/27, recognizing its obsolescence. Since that time, the old runway has been converted to hangar space, al-lowing more aircraft to “base” at PDK, and pay local proper-ty taxes.

Th e runway closure makes the RPZ likewise obsolete, but it remains part of the airfi eld. Because the FAA requires that airport assets continue to serve aviation purposes or be sold at market value for airport benefi t, the property’s future must in-clude compensation to PDK for its market value.

As most neighbors know, the property was not actively managed while it functioned as a crash zone. Zoned “industri-al,” the Clairmont frontage was intermittently leased to haul-ing companies, until noise complaints induced termination of such uses. More recently, the city of Brookhaven suggest-ed the property for their paving operation, and the county ac-commodated.

At no time has recreation been a permitted use of the prop-erty, though neighbors may have taken the liberty to walk the site. Most recently, an unsanctioned group of people invited the media to accompany them onto the RPZ to document ef-forts to make recreational improvement there. Th is overt tres-pass compelled the county to post the property so that there could be no misunderstanding of the property’s legal function and restrictions.

What’s in store for the RPZ? Clearly, it is ending its avia-tion use. Th e county must obtain a market price in any sale; the property is not subject to state laws allowing for transfer to the city as a park. But beyond those parameters, there’s re-ally a lot of fl exibility.

Th e northwest corner of the property near Ninth Street is a rugged, forested valley suitable for passive green space, un-der city management.

Th e Clairmont frontage is fi lled and disturbed, and could serve North DeKalb residents as a coun-ty Service Center, including a new tag offi ce, freeing up the current Dresden Drive location for more of the urban development that has been so successful there. Th e Clair-mont frontage could additionally accommodate a recreational facili-ty to serve the many children that live nearby.

Th ere’s also likely room for pri-vate development. Th e county has some fl exibility to facilitate public uses, including “owner fi nancing” of a sale to a public or nonprofi t partner. Any non-govern-mental use would be subject to Brookhaven zoning controls.

One important caveat is that the ultimate decisions on the future use of the land must be made by your elected representatives in the open with public notice and stake-holder input.

DeKalb County holds title, and there are rules and restric-tions, but still a lot of opportunity. Government ownership of the site gives us options to do diff erently than a private owner would, but it doesn’t make an optimal solution any less com-plex.

DeKalb County Commissioner Je� Rader represents District 2, which includes a portion of Brookhaven.

DeKalb holds title on PDK’s undeveloped land

JEFF RADER

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Citizens want to preserve nearly 30 acres of woodland near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport.

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8601 Roswell Road on May 4, a facility that nearly dou-bled its retail space to 14,000 square feet. Previously the home of a NTB Tire & Service Center, Cartunes’ new site replaces its previous location about fi ve miles south, at 5834 Roswell Road, not far from I-285.

“We were bursting at the seams. We had already got-ten to the point where we could not handle any ad-ditional business—we were turning people away,” Emran Al-borno, marketing and operations manager, said of the move into a larger store, which features a re-modeled showroom, larger work bay area, and a full waiting area for customers.

Cartunes specializes in high-end car audio, but also off ers custom interiors, custom paint work and other services.

“We’re kind of a one-stop shop for people who want to leave their car here and do a bunch of things to it,” says Dak Kinard, who owns the store along with busi-ness partner Richard Grimm.

Kinard has owned the business since 2000, though Cartunes has been locally owned since 1978. He said the main change he has seen in the industry is the ad-

BY TIM DARNELL Th e Perimeter area’s entrance into

spring and summer has brought a lit-tle bit of new life to the community’s landscaping businesses.

“We’re seeing jobs now that are larger in scope than [jobs were] four or fi ve years ago,” said Molly Welch of Sandy Springs-based W Design Land-scape. “People have more confi dence to invest more money in their prop-erty.

“During the recession, people weren’t splurging on their projects. Th e average cost of a job we did four or fi ve years ago was $5,000. Now, it’s $15,000.”

“If you’re a landscaper and your schedule isn’t crazy this time of year, you need to be in another business,” said Andy Batcheller, owner of Handy Andy Outdoors, based in Chamblee. “People are spending money again, and landscaping and lawn mainte-nance is a service that more people are hiring out.”

Th e community is only now begin-ning to emerge from the most recent recession, said Mark Erbesfi eld, pres-ident of Greenmark Landscaping in north Atlanta.

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According to a national survey conducted by Lawn & Landscape mag-azine, landscaping industry revenues are expected to grow nationwide by 8.5 percent. Th e industry trade publication’s survey said 92 percent of landscaping businesses expect to turn a profi t in 2015.

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Sonesta ES Suites held a ribbon cutting on May

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CEO Tom Mahaffey, Will Carlson, Jennifer Cruce,

Suzanne Brown, City Councilman Gabriel Sterling, Marc Greenberg, Keri Kendrick-Moore, Maebelyn Ampoan, Robin Hammond and Susan Lesesne.

Insignia of Sandy Springs, located at 690 Mount Vernon Highway held a ribbon

cutting on April 30. On hand were Beth Berger, Tony Grieco, Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul, City Councilman

Gabriel Sterling, Phyllis Dowell, Owner Aileen Rosso, Walter Esquivel, Owner

Milton Cruz, Liz Graves, Suzanne Brown and Erica Rocker-Willis.Insignia is a senior living and

memory care facility.

Freedom Orthopedic + Rehab owner Thomas Joseph,

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Davis, at his left, Dunwoody Chamber President Stephanie

Snodgrass, friends and family in a ribbon cutting

announcing the opening of the new practice. Located

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1160 Hammond Apartments recently celebrated its grand

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Supercuts, a full-service salon offering

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AAA Auto Club Group, the Chastain Park Branch, held a ribbon cutting on April 29, at 4410 Roswell Road.

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“The biggest challenge is finding peo-ple who want to work,” Batcheller said. “We all pull from the same pool of la-borers.”

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“Most of the vehicles out there don’t come with all the features that you see in the commercials,” Alborno said. “The larger market nowadays is the truck market, the F150s of the world, Dodge Rams [and similar vehicles], where about 80 percent of the vehicles that are actually released from the factory don’t have a lot of the features that you see on the ads, whether it be back-up cameras or an 8-inch touch screen.

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Cars and trucks are not the only ve-hicles serviced at Cartunes. Technicians have added features to motorcycles, ATVs, boats and even an airplane.

Cartunes technicians, Kinard said, undergo schooling each year to learn about new vehicles and trends in the in-dustry. That training is needed as the technology in the vehicles keeps grow-ing. The future of the industry, Kinard said, will likely have cars speaking to their owners’ increasingly wired homes.

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Annie KIDSWednesday, June 3, 3 and 7 p.m. –Th ese musical performances feature the classic tale of a Depression-era orphan Annie as she fi nds her new family in billionaire Oliver War-bucks. Donations are accepted at the door to support performing arts at the church. Dun-woody United Methodist Church, 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more in-formation, go to dunwoodyumc.org or call 770-394-8492.

Soap Box Derby

Saturday, June 6, 9 a.m. – Th e Dunwoody NE GA Soap Box Derby Association presents the eighth annual Dunwoody Soap Box Der-by. Th is race is a fully sanctioned head-to-head competition of homemade Stock and Super Stock cars. Th is year the event now includes a Super Kids’ Race for children with disabilities. Winners of each category go on to race in Ak-ron, OH in July for the 78th Annual All-Amer-ican Soap Box Derby World Championship. Race registration is $100 and attendance is free. Rain date is June 13. First Baptist Church Atlanta, 4400 N. Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go online to dunwoodysoapboxderby.com, email [email protected] or call 770-540-1317.

Flying Colors Butterfl y Festival

Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Sunday, June 7, 12-5 p.m. – Th e Chat-tahoochee Nature Center presents a weekend of live entertainment, food trucks, crafts, face painting, butterfl y education, garden tours and a butterfl y costume parade. Live butterfl y re-leases held on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Gen-eral admission tickets are $12, members and children 2 years old and under are free. Chatta-hoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Rd., Ro-swell, 30075. For more information, go on-line to chattnaturecenter.org, email [email protected] or call 770-992-2055.

Ice Cream SocialSaturday, June 7, 12:15-2 p.m. – Th e eighth annual Slow Food Ice Cream Social will take place immediately after the close of the farmer’s market in the garden of the Cathedral of St. Philip. A variety of homemade ice creams and sorbets by amateurs and local chefs will be available to taste for ticket holders. Partici-pants will cast votes for their favorite “cream of the crop” fl avor as well as the tastiest vegetable-fl avored ice cream. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for children from 5-10 years old, and free for children under 5. Guests are encouraged to bring their own spoon. Participating restau-rants include 4th & Swift, Bantam + Biddy, Chick-a-Biddy, Cakes & Ale, Empire State South, King & Duke and many more. Cathe-dral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Rd., NW, Buckhead, 30305. For more information, go online to slowfoodatlanta.org or email [email protected].

Pioneer HouseMonday, June 8 to Friday, June 12, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. – Th is week-long camp will ex-plore the histories of local settlers as well as their relationship to the neighboring Creek and Cher-okee Indians. Th e camp will teach basic pioneer skills like cooking over a fi re, distilling water and constructing a shelter. Atlanta History Center, 130 W. Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Buckhead, 30305. For more information and to register ahead, go online to atlantahistorycenter.com or call 404- 814-4000.

Southeastern ReptilesTuesday, June 9, 4-4:45 p.m. – Friends of the Dunwoody Library present this educational session focusing on local reptiles for kids aged 5 to 12 years old. Free with library card. Dunwoody Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dun-woody, 30338. For more information, go online to dekalblibrary.org or call 770-512-4640.

Summer Sing-Along Thursday, June 18, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m. – Th ese interactive ses-sions of music stimulate growth and develop-ment while building pre-literacy skills. Host-ed by Ms. Jennifer from Music Together Metro Atlanta, this event is free with library card and recommended for families with children aged newborn to 4 years old. Buckhead Branch Li-brary, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlanta, 30305. For more information, email [email protected], go online to fcpl.org, or call 404-814-3500.

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Possum Trot 10KSunday, June 14, 7 a.m. – Th is fl at, scenic 10K run has been an Atlanta tradition for 37 years. Th ere is an individual 10K starting at 7 a.m. and a kids’ one-mile Fun Run starting at 7:10 a.m. Registra-tion includes a white, cotton blend t-shirt, bag, post race awards party at the Ben Brady Lakeside Pavil-ion, and free admission to the Nature Center on the day of the race. Individual 10K registration is $30 in advance and $40 on race day. Kids’ Fun Run tick-ets are $15 each. Teams and families receive a $3 dis-count per participant with minimum of 6 running members. Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Wil-leo Rd., Roswell, 30075. For more information and to register, go online to chattnaturecenter.org or call 770-992-2055.

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Spruill Arts Exhibition� ursday, June 4, 6-9 p.m. – Spruill Gallery presents the third annual Student & Faculty Juried Exhibition. Th e works are juried by Saskia Benja-min, executive director of ART PAPERS, and fea-ture works produced at the Spruill Center for the Arts. Th e opening reception will include an awards presentation, and the exhibition will have a closing reception on Saturday, August 8. Spruill Gallery, 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go online to spruillarts.org or call 770-394-4019.

Concerts in the ParkSaturday, June 13, 7 p.m. – Th e Dunwoody Nature Center presents live music by band Georgia Flood, craft beers, and picnic style seating in the meadow and back porch of the center. Concerts in the Park are free for members, $5 for non-member adults, $3 for students, and free for kids 3 and un-der. For more information, go online to dunwood-ynaturecenter.org or call 770-394-3322.

Sax at the MJCCASunday, June 14, 7 p.m. – Th e Marcus Jew-ish Community Center of Atlanta presents a live performance by Grammy award-winning saxo-phonist, composer and educator Mace Hibbard. Tickets are $10 for adult members and $15 for general admission adults. MJCCA, Morris & Rae Frank Th eatre, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dun-woody, 30338. For more information and to pur-chase tickets, go online to atlantajcc.org or call 678-812-4002.

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SSPC Fashion ShowTuesday, June 9, 5:30-9:30 p.m. – Th e San-dy Springs Perimeter Chamber presents “Fashion Goes Global,” the third annual fundraiser benefi t-ing the Drake House, a nonprofi t dedicated to pro-viding housing, education and empowerment to homeless women and their families facing crisis. Th e fashion show will feature Sandy Springs’ rescue he-roes, community volunteers and corporate leaders. Food and beverages provided by 5 Seasons Brewery, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Nancy G’s, Teela Taqueria and more. Reservations are required and ticket pric-es start at $20 for chamber members; $35 for non-members. UPS World Headquarters, 55 Glenlake Parkway, NE, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more in-formation and to purchase tickets, go online to SSP-Chamber.org.

Garden TourSaturday, June 13, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. – Th e American Hydrangea Society presents a tour of fi ve gardens in the Sandy Springs area that feature ge-nus Hydrangea in diff erent settings both large and small. Individual tickets are $30, and tickets for two are $40 and will be for sale at Garden 1, 640 Tan-glewood Trail NW, Sandy Springs, 30327. Driving directions to the locations are included with ticket purchase. Th is is event is rain or shine and is not handicap accessible due to the nature of the gar-dens. One year membership to the Atlanta Hydran-gea Society is included with the cost of tickets to this event. For more information and to purchase tickets, go online to americanhydrangeasociety.org, email [email protected], or call 770-956-7734.

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Students say retiring teacher inspires, encourages them

BY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWISBouncing around at the bottom of

a hilly driveway, about 200 Atlanta Speech School students were limbered up and antsy to get to the race starting gate.

Th eir coach saw an opportunity — time enough for one more warm-up before the 36th annual Fun Run.

So they could see her, Maggie Dean-er scrambled atop a narrow brick wall, relatively short on one side but with a 10-foot-or-more drop overlooking the runners on the other.

With less than 2 feet of room to ma-neuver atop the wall, the 66-year-old broke into jumping jacks. She hula hooped. She did knee bends.

As some of the parents cringed above, the kids below just looked up and fol-lowed her movements. Th ey’re used to

the amazing antics of “Ms. Maggie,” as were students before them.

Deaner retired in May after 41 years at the Atlanta Speech School, a Buck-head-based center for language and lit-eracy that serves chil-dren and adults with speech, hearing, lan-guage or learning dis-

abilities.Th inking about leaving made her

“get a little dust in my eyes, you know what I mean?” Deaner said. But she said it’s time for her and her husband, Dick, to travel, do more volunteering, and fo-cus on being “Old Dad” and “Grand-mag” for their six grandchildren.

Her profound impact on children is illuminated each year in the 1-mile Fun Run, a parent-driven event that raises funds for the center’s Wardlaw School, a

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Physical education teacher Maggie Deaner, center, leads runners to the start of the 36th annual Atlanta Speech School

Fun Run. Deaner will retire after 41 years at the school.

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program for children with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabili-ties.

Beginning with six weeks of incre-mental training and meticulously chart-ed progress, the Fun Run is not a one-time event but an experience with year-round impact, said Comer Yates, the Atlanta Speech School’s executive director.

“It’s not just about showing up and giving it your best that morning. It’s about getting better every day,” Yates said. “It’s a victory lap for these children who have worked so hard in all they’ve done here.”

Parent Deborah Blase, who chaired the event with parent Tina Reese Blitch, said Deaner teaches kids to aim for short-range and long-range goals. “With that planning, preparation and practice, they can do anything,” Blase said.

Katie Robinson, 9, provides living proof. “At the beginning of the training, I couldn’t run around a lot,” Katie said, “but at the end of Fun Run training, I ran a mile!”

“She inspires me,” said Avery Grace Messner, 11. “She encourages me to do stuff and makes me feel good when I do it. She cheers me on.”

Th e students got to cheer on their teacher at the recent annual Fun Run T-shirt reveal.

Assisted behind the scenes, Dean-er once again managed to put on the T-shirt from every previous Fun Run, in-cluding the 2015 shirt.

Th e students chanted her name as the shirts were pulled off , one by one, down to this year’s tie-dyed shirt and an extra one slipped on by her sneaky T-shirt as-sistants — a “We (heart) Ms. Maggie!” shirt.

Deaner took her bow by springing into not one, but two cartwheels.

Yates said Deaner is “a force of na-ture” who is devoted to the school com-munity.

“She has more goodwill and more will than maybe anybody I’ve ever met in my life,” he said.

Th e petite human dynamo is at the YMCA every weekday morning by 5:30 a.m. for swimming or boot camp exer-cise. Deaner said she’s always been an ‘outside’ person, adding, “I always got an A in recess.”

She was a graduate student at the University of Tennessee when she learned about the job at the Atlanta Speech School, a place at which both her mother and aunt had volunteered.

When she started work there, most of the school’s children were hearing impaired and she couldn’t understand them. But by the end of two months, teachers were coming to her to ask her what their students were saying, Dean-er said.

Children say they love her, and par-ents have a tough time talking about her leaving. Many of the alumni who joined in the Fun Run were parents of children who are now in Deaner’s classes.

Mary Reed, 40, one among that number, calls Deaner “the spirit of the school.”

“She hasn’t changed since the fi rst day,” Reed said.

An active volunteer at Peachtree Pres-byterian Church, Deaner is known for being the fi rst to give birthday cards to her coworkers at school. She insists that her students learn names rather than re-fer to each other as “that boy” or “that girl.”

Her reason: “I just think you need to make a new friend every day.”

Teacher Maggie Deaner does one last warmup atop a high brick wall before the 1-mile

Fun Run. Deaner, 66, is retiring to travel, volunteer and focus

on her six grandchildren.


V A L E D I C T O R I A N S A N D S A L U T A T O R I A N S

Th e school year has ended and high schools have awarded hard-earned diplomas and other honors to hundreds of young men and women. During most graduation ceremonies, a select few students are recognized as the top academic performers in their schools by being named the valedictorians and salutatorians for their classes. Here are the 2015 honorees from public and private high schools in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs.

Mount Vernon Presbyterian

ValedictorianKatherine Ward

SalutatorianHannah Zenas

The Lovett School

ValedictorianMary Winslow Anderson

SalutatorianMelissa Houghton

Marist School

ValedictorianMyriam Shehata

SalutatorianCarlin Zaprowski

Cross Keys High

ValedictorianRaul Perez

SalutatorianBao Truong

Chamblee Charter High

ValedictorianArcher Gordon

ValedictorianKavi Pandian

SalutatorianSwapnil Agrawal

SalutatorianJose Hernandez

Schools honor top academic achievers

ValedictorianAbigail Joy Askew

SalutatorianShengjie “Jack” Bian

Brandon HallAtlanta Girls’ School

ValedictorianSydney Knight

SalutatorianPriya Arya

Atlanta International School

ValedictorianDavid Robinson

SalutatorianMatias Ferandel

ValedictorianAudrey Benson

SalutatorianCatriona Geddes

Holy Spirit Preparatory High

Valedictorian Meredith Jones

SalutatorianAlexis Wilkinson

Dunwoody High Holy Innocents’ Episcopal

ValedictorianClaire Kelsey

SalutatorianBrandon Jackson


The Westminster Schools

ValedictorianMary Boyd Crosier

ValedictorianElizabeth Ferguson

ValedictorianJohn Shen

SalutatorianHannah Gay

SalutatorianBenjamin Greenberg

The Weber School

Valedictorian Ilan Palte

ValedictorianBonnie Simono�

SalutatorianSamantha Le�

St. Pius X Catholic High

ValedictorianConnor Huddleston

SalutatorianNina Patronis

Riverwood International Charter

ValedictorianCarolyn Stanek

SalutatorianCaroline Albright

Pace Academy

ValedictorianMark Grenader

SalutatorianErin Rawls

North Atlanta High

ValedictorianKendall De Laria

SalutatorianRobert Leon

North Springs Charter High

ValedictorianMadhu Baskaran

SalutatorianLucas Capps

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Day!Top left, Dunwoody High School senior

Blake Tiede chats at his graduation ceremony

at North DeKalb Stadium on May 21.

Right, Pace Academy said goodbye to its

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exercises held at Peachtree Presbyterian Church. Actor Robert

Downey Jr. delivers the Commencement Address.

Bottom left, seniors from The Westminster Schools

also graduated on May 16, receiving diplomas on the steps of Pressly Hall in front of family

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“Th ere were seven kids when we started,” she said. “Were that same group to meet weekly now, 16 kids would be playing together.”

Pearson grew up near where DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties meet, so she said she’s never sure which city to call home. As of February 2005, she and her family have called Dun-woody home. Th ey made a community from the neigh-bors and friends they met liv-ing in Georgetown.

She laughed as she described her 1950s-style community -- with modern touches, such as texting to borrow a cup of sugar.

“I’ll text one day for an egg and the next day I’ll get a text, ‘Do you have half a cup of sour cream?’” she said. “We just have our kids run it across the street to them.”

One friend texted Pearson re-cently to ask her to babysit while the friend fi nished making a meal for a neighbor who’d recently had a baby.

Pearson’s thankful for her friends because “it really does take a vil-lage,” she said. “Everybody’s really

nice and so laid back. It’s sort of like the 1950s.”

Th e recreation center is where most of the moms, dads and kids catch up nowadays.

Adelyn Pearson, Lyndsey’s 8-year-old daughter, might be too young to travel on the forthcoming

multiuse trail con-necting George-town Park to Brook Run Park, but she loves the Georgetown Rec-reation Club,

where she practices on a swim team. “Th e water is cool and gymnas-

tics are air-conditioned, so those are her sports,” Lyndsey said, de-scribing her daughter’s desire to avoid the heat.

Th ose who don’t swim, like Th ompson’s kids, play sports. While Th ompson’s kids travel to Murphey Candler Park, Pearson’s son and husband play ALTA tennis.

Richard Pearson said he and Lyndsey inspired their friends to get the ALTA teams started, and Richard has been men’s team cap-tain for 20 seasons now.

“We twisted arms to get people

to play,” he joked. “We more or less recruited everyone from our play-group to play tennis.”

Th e Pearson family didn’t in-tend their house to stay their home forever, Lyndsey said. She and her husband considered the three-bed-room, two-bathroom place a begin-ning for their three-person family. After a few rounds of home im-provements and a decade’s worth of relationship building, they aren’t planning to move anytime soon.

“When we moved into the house we thought it was a start-er home and we didn’t intend to stay more than five years,” she said.

Th e young couples who they now cheer for during adult tennis matches and kids’ sports are the same friends with homes they can walk to for ingredients and a help-ing hand.

“Th is is just luck of the draw,” Pearson said about fi nding close friends on her street. “I would say 98 percent of the people who live in this neighborhood met because we had kids the same age, but even if we didn’t have kids we would still be friends.”


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council approved the agreement unanimously.“Th is was a long, hard-fought battle that took its toll

on everyone,” Th ompson said.Mayor Mike Davis called the settlement “the right

thing at the right time.”“Th e alternative, I’m afraid, was a much longer and

much harder fought and not necessarily a better set-tlement than we got, so we’re moving forward for cer-tain,” Davis said.

Th e check that will arrive soon from the county will “put to bed” the lawsuit with DeKalb County and allow Dunwoody to invest in its parks, the may-or added.

Councilman Denny Shortal said he isn’t usually the

kind of person to settle.“We were owed $7 million dollars,” he said, but he

added that the lawyers convinced him that accepting the deal and moving forward would likely be the best outcome.

He said it boils down to an all-or-nothing situation where waiting for the full amount could result in get-ting nothing at all.

“Do I like it? No, I don’t,” Shortal said. “I think it’s the best that we could do at the time.”

Councilman John Heneghan said getting the money to pay for projects the city had planned makes the ap-proval worthwhile. “We’re going to be standing side-by-side with our DeKalb County commissioners to open those parks,” he said.

DeKalb County Commissioner Nancy Jester said in a press release that fi nding a taxpayer-friendly set-tlement and avoiding a costly lawsuit had been a prior-ity for her since joining the Board of Commissioners.

“In just a few short months we worked together and turned an issue which had divided the county and city into a win for the taxpayers,” Jester wrote. “Th e approx-imately $4 million will be spent on specifi c park proj-ects that will both, improve the quality of life for resi-dents of DeKalb County and enhance property values.”

As both a citizen of the city and the county, Heneghan said the situation is win-win for everybody involved.

“Th is is a glorious day,” Heneghan said. “We’re done suing each other with our own money.”


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Police Blotter

From police reports dated May 5-21.

The following information was pulled from Dunwoody’s Police-to-Citizen Portal Event Search website

and is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY 2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing—

On May 9, a robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On May 12, a robbery by purse-snatching was reported.

6900 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On May 15, a robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On May 15, an arrest was made for armed robbery of a business.

4600 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On May 20, robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

6800 block of Peachtree-Indus-trial Boulevard—On May 21, robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

BURGLARY 6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial

Boulevard—On May 6, burglary was reported at a residence.

First block of Perimeter Place—On May 8, burglary was reported at a res-idence.

4000 block of Dunwoody Park—On May 11, burglary was reported at a res-idence.

6800 block of Peachtree-Industri-al Boulevard—On May 12, a burglary was reported.

5000 block of Hensley Drive—On May 12, a burglary was reported.

1000 block of Ashford Parkway—On May 15, burglary was reported.

AUTO THEFT 6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial

Boulevard—On May 5, theft of a mo-tor vehicle was reported.

THEFT/LARCENY 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On May 5, 6, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20 and 21, larceny and shoplifting re-

ports and arrests were made; On May 9, larceny from a building was reported.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 21, shoplifting was reported and arrests were made.

1400 block of Mount Vernon Road—On May 5, larceny from mail was re-ported.

120 block of Perimeter Center West—On May 6, larceny from a building was reported.

6600 block of Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard—On May 7, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 9, three arrests for larceny shop-

lifting were made; On May 14, an arrest was made for shoplifting; On May 18, shoplifting was reported.

ASSAULT 4400 block of Pineridge Circle—On

May 5, a wanted person was located and an arrest was made for simple assault.

4600 block of Peachtree Place Park-way—On May 5, a simple battery was reported and an arrest was made.

1100 block of Hammond Drive—On May 6, assault by intimidation was re-ported.

4500 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 6, assault by intimida-tion was reported.

7100 block of Madison Drive—On May 7, an arrest was made for aggravat-ed assault and battery with a weapon.

First block of Ravinia Drive—On May 7, assault by intimidation was re-ported.

8200 block of Peachford Circle—On May 12, a simple assault was reported.

1800 block of Cotillion Drive—On May 14, harassing communication was reported.

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Local offi cers train to deal with ‘active shooters’


After gunmen repeatedly have killed people in public places across the country, local police departments regularly train offi cers for “active shooter” situations.

Sandy Springs police plan to convert a warehouse into a training facility where of-fi cers can learn ways to respond to an armed assailant. City offi cials recently agreed to set up the facility for the department’s training and to allow other local police de-partments to use it.

In a memo to the city manager, Sandy Springs Police Chief Ken DeSimone de-scribed an “active shooter” as an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confi ned and populated area.

“Whether it’s the FedEx facility across the river in Cobb County or an active shooter that happened in the food court of Perimeter Mall 20 years ago,” DeSimone said this type of situation is something society can’t get away from.

Until recently, Sandy Springs police used a makeshift two-story building for train-ing offi cers to deal with an armed assailant in an urban setting. Training Offi cer Sgt. Chip Bohannon teaches offi cers to use their brains when real-world events unfold.

“An active assailant is someone who is trying to harm people – you mainly see it in schools,” Bohannon said. “If their intent is to cause mass casualty, it doesn’t mat-ter what kind of weapon they have.”

Th e place where Bohannon conducted the training recently closed. DeSimone said police need a new facility because the type of training for situations is diff erent from standardized training for weapons qualifi cation.

Police in Brookhaven and Dunwoody also conduct training for active shooter situations. “We are actually trying to use Cross Keys High to do our active shooter training in the summer,” said Offi cer Carlos Nino, spokesman for the Brookhaven department. “Agencies are known to use large buildings such as schools for that type of live training besides from simulators.”

Police use fake ammunition, called “Simunition,” which is similar to paintball pellets, but more painful when it hits.

“It’s like paintball on steroids,” DeSimone told members of Sandy Springs City Council recently.

“We also use a projector and a large white screen with live actors to simulate real life situations,” Dunwoody police spokesman Offi cer Tim Fecht said.

It’s similar to a Fire Arms Training Simulator machine that Dunwoody offi cers travel to Cartersville to use, Fecht said.

Bohannon compared the training to a vaccination because the live scenarios are set up to prepare offi cers for the worse situations they could possibly encounter.

“What we’re doing is we try to stress-inoculate people, so basically we’re trying to put you in a scenario where you’re overly stressed,” Bohannon said.

Nino said once a team of at least four offi cers (one to watch front, rear, left and right) is assembled in a diamond formation, they enter a building in an attempt to stop the threat and fi nd survivors.

“We obviously use protective gear around our heads and faces,” Nino said. “If ar-eas of the body that are exposed, like the hands and arms, get hit with those rounds, it could leave a nice, strawberry-red bruise.”

Bohannon and Nino agree that “active shooter” training isn’t standard and not all cities have access to funding or space to prepare.

“Th e guns and rounds are expensive and we’re fortunate enough to have this equipment to practice as close to real-world as possible,” Bohannon said.

Th e environment gives commanders a good idea as to how offi cers will react un-der real pressure and stress, Bohannon said. By putting them through training that involves loud sounds, dark places and role players yelling and screaming, offi cers learn to cope with strong feelings and emotions, he added.

“Instead of sitting in a classroom talking about what if we actually put you in that situation,” Bohannon said.

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Dunwoody Police BlotterCONTINUED FROM PAGE 21

300 block of Perimeter Center North—On May 14, simple assault and battery was reported.

2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On May 14, aggravated assault and bat-tery with a gun was reported.

3200 block of Asbury Square—On May 15, simple assault and battery was reported.

6800 block of Peachtree-Indus-trial Boulevard—On May 16, simple assault and battery was reported; On May 17, simple battery was reported.

2200 block of Vernon Oaks Way—On May 16, an arrest was made for simple assault and battery.

200 block of Perimeter Walk—On May 16, harassing commu-nication was reported.

6600 block of Peachtree-In-dustrial Boulevard—On May 17, a sexual assault was reported.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 17, simple assault and battery was reported.

2000 block of Lake Ridge Lane—On May 18, harassing communication was reported.

4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On May 19, simple assault and battery was reported.

1900 block of Peachford Road—On

May 19, family battery was reported.

4400 block of Tilly Mill Road—On May 19, simple assault and battery was reported.

FRAUD 1000 block of Crown Pointe Park-

way—On May 6, fraud was reported.

4300 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 6, credit fraud was re-

ported; On May 8, fraud was re-ported.

4400 block of Ash-ford-Dunwoody Road—On May 9, fraud was reported.

1000 block of Oak-pointe Place—On May 9, fraud by impersonation was reported.

100 block of Ashford Gables Drive—On May 14, fraud was reported.

4700 block of Laurel Walk—On May 14, fraud was

reported.

4500 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On May 15, fraud was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On May 15, credit fraud was reported and two reports of fraud were reported.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place—On May 17, larceny pocket picking was reported.

300 block of Perimeter Center North—

On May 19, fraud by swindle was report-ed.

OTHER First block of Perimeter Center East—

On May 6, arrests were made for sale of marijuana and for possession of marijua-na; On May 8, an arrest was made for failure to appear in court; On May 17, an arrest was made for failure to appear.

3600 block of Dunwoody Club Drive—On May 5, an arrest was made for driving while license suspended or revoked.

2400 block of Dunkerrin Lane—On May 6, an arrest was made for driving while unlicensed.

Ga. 285 at Chamblee-Dun-woody Road—On May 6, an arrest was made for driving while license was suspended or revoked.

Ga. 285 at Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 6, an arrest was made for aggressive driving; On May 9 and 14, reports of damage to private proper-ty were made.

Peachtree-Industrial Boulevard at Win-ters Chapel Road—On May 7, an arrest was made for obstruction and making a false report.

100 block of Perimeter Center West—On May 8, an arrest was made for disor-derly conduct.

4700 block of North Peachtree Road—

On May 8, two arrests were made for possession of marijuana. 5000 block of Winters Chapel Road—On May 9, an arrest was made for driving while unli-censed.

First block of Peachford Circle—On May 10, an arrest was made for DUI-drugs.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On May 14, an arrest was made for DUI; On May 20, an arrest was made for marijuana possession.

4700 block of Winters Chapel Road—On May 15, an arrest was made for DUI.

4600 block of North Shallowford Road—On May 16, an arrest was made for disorderly under the infl u-

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Ga. 285 at Peachtree Road—On May 17, an arrest was

made for reckless driving and an arrest was made for DUI.

300 block of Perimeter Center North—On May 17, damage to private property was reported.

2000 block of Woodland Club Way—On May 18, an arrest was made for DUI.

2400 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On May 19, an arrest was made for DUI.

5400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On May 19, an arrest was made for disorderly conduct.

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Driveways & Walkways – Replaced or repaired. Masonry, grading, foundations repaired, waterproofi ng and retaining walls. Call Joe Sullivan 770-616-0576.

Matthew’s Handy Services – Small jobs and chores are my specialties. Shelving/organizers, carpentry, drywall, painting, plumbing and minor yard work. Member of the Better Business Bureau – call 404-547-2079 or email [email protected].

SERVICES AVAILABLE

WINDOWS & SIDINGOffering vinyl, wood and composite windows – All types of siding. Factory-trained installation. Family-owned, Family-priced. Angie’s List ‘A’ Rated. BBB ‘A+’. 33 Years In Business. Quinn Windows & Siding. 770-939-5634.

LANDSCAPING SERVICESLandscape Design, Hardscape Design and Installation. – 35 years’ experience. Retaining Walls, Flag Stone and Brick Paver Patios, Landscape Lighting, Drainage issues and Pavilions. Free qu Lynwood Park otes. Visit: www.thebodigroup.com or call 678-788-5656.

AUTO FOR SALEFOR SALE 2008 Lexus SC 430 - One owner, very good condition, 92,235 miles. All service maintained by Lexus dealer. $23,000. Call Diana 404-403-4099

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITYOwn your own established Real Estate Advertising Business – Call Patrick 855-556-7544 or visit publishing.realestatebook.com

HJ Russell and Company in Conjunction with The Benoit Group is renovating Sterling Place Senior Apartments located at 144 Allen Road. In accordance with Section 3 Guidelines as stipulated by HUD and The DCA, we are looking for Section 3

classification individuals to perform general demolition labor and housekeeping items throughout the day on an active construction site. All individuals must be able to freely lift objects weighing 75 lbs or greater, must have transportation to the job, and must able

to pass screening test. This is a temporary job that is available only during the demolition phase of the construction process. If interested in the opportunity and comply with Section 3 guidelines

and criteria, please submit your resume or hiring information to the email address [email protected].

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