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OCT. 30 — NOV. 12, 2015 • VOL. 7 — NO. 22

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SEE WOMEN, PAGE 20

SEE PEACHTREE, PAGE 5

BY JOHN [email protected]

Th e fi rst-draft design of the new Peachtree Creek Greenway at Brookhaven park and trail contained a big surprise: not just one creek-side path, but up to four paths of diff erent types and uses.

Th e creek, largely hidden behind build-ings along Buford Highway and I-85, off ers an “opportunity to create multiple experienc-es in the corridor,” lead planner Carlos Perez said as he unveiled the draft design at an Oct. 22 meeting at Brookhaven’s Briarwood Park.

Th e Greenway was conceived as a BeltLine-style linear park with a paved multi-use trail running roughly 3 miles through Brookhav-en’s section of the creek. Th at multi-use trail is still the core concept. But in some sections, it could run parallel to an unpaved “nature trail” and a “creek trail” where hikers would be “ac-tually jumping from rock to rock when the water is low,” Perez said.

In addition, if the greenway triggers com-mercial redevelopment facing the creek, there’s also an opportunity for them to feature “urban promenades”—a kind of combo trail and pa-tio overlooking the other trails.

Cross-sections of various areas of the creek showed potential open space that could be fi lled with such amenities as boardwalks and

Left, Debbie Matzdkin makes silk art at a vendor’s booth during the 11th annual Brookhaven Arts Festival on Oct. 17.

The two-day event, located on Apple Valley Road next to the MARTA station, featured more than 100 artists, showcasing fi ber, glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and other works of art. See more photos on page 19.

PHIL MOSIER

BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE [email protected]

Th e only “dainty, girly” things about Brookhaven Police Of-fi cer Celeste Rausch when she’s on duty are her pink nails and a set of pink handcuff s on the dashboard of her patrol car.

“I ride a motorcycle [off duty]. I work part-time sports broadcasting for Turner Sports,” Rausch said. “I’ve done a lot of things—shoot guns—that are, in my head, male things to do.”

She admits she has a feminine side, though she said she only does her nails to keep from picking at them. “I fi nd that when I polish them I leave them alone for the most part and they don’t break as easily,” Rausch said. “I don’t do my hair or wear make-up on duty.”

As a female offi cer, Rausch is a relative rarity among lo-cal cops. She is one of 11 women among the 70 offi cers in Brookhaven. In Sandy Springs, Lauren Ruffi ni is one of 11 fe-

male offi cers on the 125-offi cer force. In Buckhead, Atlanta Po-lice Offi cer April White is one of 349 women among Atlanta’s 1,921 offi cers.

Until this month, Dunwoody’s department hadn’t had a fe-male offi cer since 2012. Police offi cials said few women applied for a job and of the few who did, none were qualifi ed.

Offi cer Rashida Moore joined Dunwoody Oct. 8 and was sworn in by the mayor at a City Council meeting Oct. 26. In Sandy Springs, Ruffi ni started as a patrol offi cer in May, after the department put her through the police academy to get cer-tifi ed. She said she had worked in the DeKalb County Jail and knew from Dunwoody offi cers that she wouldn’t get hired in that city because she wasn’t a sworn offi cer yet.

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Peachtree Creek Greenway could offer many trails

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Residents examine a map of the Peachtree Creek Greenway during an Oct. 22 meeting at Briarwood Park.

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The fine houses of Historic Brookhav-en could be coming to a coffee table near you, immortalized in a limited-edition book.

The book project, led by a Historic Brookhaven Neighborhood Association committee, is not just decorative. It’s an attempt to raise awareness of the area’s his-toric value as many houses are changed or demolished to make room for bigger, infill mansions. The book’s publication, which is not yet guaranteed, relies on pre-sales from homeowners and history-lovers in general.

“Unfortunately, since [the book idea was raised] five years ago, many of those homes are either altered so significantly they would no longer qualify [as historic] or have been torn down,” said book com-mittee member Lauren Jackson. “Things are changing. This is a pretty unique neighborhood.”

“They’re losing these historic houses,” said Richard Diedrich, an architect and author of two coffee-table books about clubhouses who has agreed to write the Historic Brookhaven book. He lives in a 90-year-old house in the neighborhood.

Historic Brookhaven is the neighbor-hood around the Capital City Club golf course in Brookhaven. It straddles the bor-der of Brookhaven and Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. The book project is fo-cused on a smaller area within the neigh-borhood—the official Historic District that has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1986.

The neighborhood dates back to a 1910 plan for what was then called the Brookhaven Country Club in an area of summer cottages. A community called Brookhaven Estates was plotted around the club’s borders, soon followed by two other subdivisions. Homes dating from the 1910 to 1942 era are now part of the Historic District.

The National Register designation of-fers recognition and eligibility for preser-vation-related grants and tax credits, but does not protect buildings from demoli-tion. About 150 historic homes remain in Historic Brookhaven, but at least 50 oth-ers have been demolished or heavily al-tered in recent years, Jackson and fellow

book-planner Mike Elliot estimate.The book would feature high-quality

photos of the houses’ facades mixed with historic photos. The Capital City Club, already featured in Diedrich’s previous books, would be included, too.

Diedrich said the book idea gained momentum over the past year when the neighborhood association formed the spe-cial committee and the Historic Brookhav-en Foundation created an LLC to publish it.

The committee is relying on owners of the historic homes, as well as interested neighbors, to pre-purchase special, signed editions of the books for $250, with oth-er extras available for bigger donations. They’re also seeking loans of historic pho-tos of the houses from anyone.

“We don’t want a book that is just a se-ries of facades,” said Diedrich, explaining that vintage photos would show the “rich-ness of the history.” It also allows residents who don’t own a historic home, but may own historic photos, to participate, he said.

Jackson is an example of an interested neighbor, as she lives in the Buckhead side of the neighborhood, but not in one of the Historic District homes.

The committee aims to publish the book in time for the holiday season in 2016. That means getting financial com-mitments and a production schedule in place much sooner. “You don’t want them to be dead-of-winter photos,” Jackson said.

On Oct. 15, the committee held a pri-vate reception for the 150 homeowners. About 40 percent have responded, Jack-son said, but more will have to participate to make the project feasible.

“In small groups, one-on-one, everyone is really enthusiastic about the book be-cause they’re enthusiastic about the neigh-borhood and they’re enthusiastic about the history. But that doesn’t mean it will come together,” Diedrich said of the proj-ect. “As you’d expect, we haven’t been over-whelmed with riches, but I really believe the committee will find a way to do it.”

To see a map of the Historic District and more information on participating in the book project, visit brookhavenlibretto.com.

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Pill Hill housing plan delayed againBY JOHN RUCH

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A controversial Pill Hill apartment plan was deferred again by Sandy Springs City Council Oct. 20, pending renewed talk of a new roadway through the area.

The Perimeter Center Improvement Districts are moving ahead on an old plan to extend the “flyover bridge,” Council-man Tibby DeJulio said. That bridge takes Perimeter Center Parkway across I-285 to Lake Hearn Drive.

“I think we really need to see what [PCIDs] have in mind,” DeJulio said, and not “eliminate the possibility of doing this [connection] in the future” by approving redevelopment on part of the possible site.

PCIDs President and CEO Yvonne Williams said in an interview that engi-neers are doing a 60-day “feasibility study” of the roadway extension. “We’re in an in-formation-gathering mode,” she said.

Both the road and the apartment project—planned on Emory Saint Jo-seph’s Hospital land at Johnson Ferry and Old Johnson Ferry—are pitched as par-tial solutions to traffic tangles in the Pill Hill medical area at Johnson Ferry and Peachtree-Dunwoody Road. Mayor Rusty Paul revealed that on Oct. 19, he had his long-planned traffic-planning meeting with administrators of Pill Hill’s three hos-pitals, also including Northside and Chil-dren’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

“What keeps me awake at night is [the idea of] an incident like a tornado or something where we can’t get people in for

treatment,” Paul said of Pill Hill traffic.The hospitals’ meeting also included

traffic consultants from the firm Nelson/Nygaard, according to Emory Saint Jo-seph’s spokeswoman Mary Beth Spence.

“At this initial meeting, all three hospi-tals committed to working with the mayor and the consultants, and the consultants also shared that they will provide informa-tion about best practices from other cit-ies,” Spence said in an email, adding that those meetings will continue.

Dane Peterson, the president of Emory Healthcare Hospital Group, attended the meeting. In a written statement, he said, “We are eager to enter this collaboration with our neighboring hospitals to make improvements for our patients, families, employees and the community we serve.”

Emory Saint Joseph’s CEO Heath-er Dexter voiced traffic concerns at the City Council meeting. Commute times for doctors and staff are among the issues, she said. The hospital sold the land for the housing use—which also mixes some of-fice, restaurant and park space—because it needs “apartments that employees can af-ford,” she said. Richard Munger of North American Properties, the developer, said the project’s “walkability” to hospitals and MARTA meshes with a recent U.S. sur-geon general’s report.

The council tossed the project back to the city Planning Commission and will re-hear it on Dec. 15.

Officials question surprise county tax breaks

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Brookhaven officials were unpleas-antly surprised to learn that DeKalb County approved city tax breaks for two major commercial developments with-out telling them. At the Oct. 27 City Council meeting, officials said they’re concerned about questionable process-es and wrong numbers in the abatement calculations.

Mayor Rebecca Chase Williams said the projects are good for Brookhaven and that DeKalb apologized for the ap-parently unintentional lack of notice. But it turns out there’s at least a third tax-break deal within Brookhaven that the city didn’t know about. City officials are now examining the possible budget impacts of at least a half-million dollars in tax abatements.

“Under no circumstance should the city of Brookhaven learn about eco-nomic development and tax abatements given away by the county through the newspaper,” said Wendy Butler, the at-torney for the city’s Development Au-thority, which did not review the deals. She added that the county might not

have the legal authority to cut the deals.The two tax-break packages the city

only learned of after the fact are a new office tower planned for Perimeter Sum-mit Parkway, with a $460,000 city tax break, and a $77,000 break for expan-sion of the Source One Direct credit-card company along I-85. Those abate-ments would be spread out over the next 15 years. The city’s tax breaks were just part of larger abatement packages, in-cluding county and school taxes, worth millions.

The amounts are significant for the small city, City Manager Marie Garrett said, noting that $77,000 is close to the price of “two police cars fully loaded.”

The abatements were approved ear-lier this month by the county’s Decide DeKalb Development Authority. City officials said Decide DeKalb has apolo-gized for lack of notice. However, De-cide DeKalb also informed the city of yet another tax abatement it didn’t com-municate, in this case for a Cox Com-munications building. The timing and amount of that tax break is unclear.


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Candidates for mayor, City Council meet in public forum

BY DYANA BAGBYBrookhaven candidates gathered at

Oglethorpe University Oct. 20 to make their cases to voters about why they should be elected to offi ce.

Taking part in the discussion hosted by the Brookhaven Reporter were mayor-al candidates Dale Boone and John Ernst; District 1 Councilwoman Linley Jones, who was appointed to the post in June; and District 3 Councilman Bates Matti-son, who is running unopposed. Th e elec-tion is Nov. 3.

More than 50 people gathered to listen to the candidates discuss topics ranging from ways to alleviate traffi c to whether or not Brookhaven should have independent schools. Th e candidates also addressed past public scandals, including the communi-cations director’s departure after making comments some interpreted as racist, and the city attorney resigning amid accusa-tions he misled the public about sexual ha-rassment allegations against former Mayor J. Max Davis.

“Th ese problems are in the past. We do need to recognize them and not do them again,” Ernst said.

Ernst also said his experience as former chair of the DeKalb County Board of Eth-ics will help to rebuild trust between the city and residents.

Jones acknowledged such past issues were “heartbreaking.”

“In my experience with the council, every person is committed to transparen-cy, committed to ethics,” she said. “Going forward, this city is going to be in good hands and we are on a positive course we need to stay on.”

Mattison said more mistakes will be made in the future, but the council has learned from its past mistakes.

“We’ve made positive changes. We’re a government for the people, and as long as [what we discuss] is not harming the citi-zens of the city, it will be public,” he said.

Boone made a plea for more citizen in-volvement to help keep city government honest.

“We’re having such a problem satisfy-ing everyone’s needs. Nobody is coming to city council meetings. We need you to be part of this,” he said.

Th ere were a few fi reworks at the fo-rum. A woman asked each candidate if he or she had ever been arrested and if the at-torneys — Ernst and Jones — had ever been disciplined by the State Bar of Geor-gia.

Ernst and Jones answered no to each question; Mattison also said he’d never been arrested.

Boone said he was arrested 15 years ago, but did not say for what other than it involved a family member. “Th is made me the person I am today,” he said. “I’ve

got nothing to hide. I am very remorseful [of] my past … but I can’t be crucifi ed for something I did 15 years ago.”

Candidates tackled the subject of ed-ucation, the crisis in the DeKalb County School District, and said would they sup-port a separate Brookhaven school system.

“We have to understand that this is a state constitutional issue,” Ernst said. “My indication is this is not coming any-time soon. We should work with DeKalb County. We need to concentrate on what’s happening now, not what could happen in the future.”

Boone said he supported a charter schools idea for Brookhaven.

Mattison said he would support a city school system, but only as a “nuclear op-tion,” saying instead it is smart to continue working with DeKalb County to ensure a quality education for its students. “We need to continue to hold DeKalb Coun-ty accountable, and the Legislature needs to do so, too,” he said.

Jones said she supported the idea of a city school system “100 percent” and cit-ed the success of the city schools of Deca-tur. “We could have that in Brookhaven if we could get the constitutional amend-ment,” she said.

Th ere is no quick fi x to fi nding solu-tions to Brookhaven’s traffi c issues, the candidates said. Brookhaven is located the middle of a great deal of development and most of the traffi c is cut-through traffi c —

motorists from other cities and areas trav-eling through Brookhaven as they drive to I-85 or Decatur, for example, Mattison said.

“What we need to do is take a regional approach” and work with DeKalb County, Dunwoody, Chamblee, Doraville and the Atlanta Regional Commission, Ernst said.

A study on the Ashford-Dunwoody corridor is a fi rst step in alleviating some traffi c issues in the city, Jones explained, and public input is needed to guarantee residents get what they want, including protecting neighborhoods, Jones said.

Boone, however, said studies were not necessary in helping the city’s traffi c is-sues. “We need to stop relying on people to tell us what we already know. Has any-one heard of a traffi c steering committee?” he said.

“Studies are what lead to federal and state funds,” Ernst said.

Ernst, Jones and Mattison shared their excitement for the new Peachtree Creek Greenway and the proposed BeltLine.

“Th e key to a successful future for Brookhaven is having a healthy path sys-tem,” Jones said. “Th e Peachtree Creek Greenway is an untapped resource and will change the entire tone of Buford Highway.”

“We want trails, yes,” Boone respond-ed. “I know Peachtree Creek very well. I take food to homeless living under bridge there. Th at’s your Buford Highway.”

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

Dale Boone, left, and John Ernst, right, face off for mayor.

Councilman Bates Mattison, left, and Councilwoman Linley Jones, center, address the crowd at Oglethorpe University on Oct. 20.

On Nov. 3, Brookhaven voters choose a new mayor and two City Council members.

Dale Boone and John Ernst seek the mayor’s chair being vacated by

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pedestrian bridges.The big challenge for the plan is prop-

erty ownership. Aside from a small parcel the city acquired from the Pink Pony strip club in a lawsuit settlement, all the land along the creek is privately owned. It re-mains to be seen if and how the city can gain access or ownership, but the plan it-self is intended to create momentum and economic incentive.

Despite the potentially transforma-tive impact of the Greenway, the meet-ing was lightly attended, with about 20 people viewing the presentation. While the affected section of Buford Highway is known as a metro Atlanta hub of La-tino immigrant residents, all of the Gre-enway materials are currently available only in English.

Marian Liou, a Brookhaven resident who recently founded the community or-ganization We Love BuHi, said the proj-ect could improve transportation options and health for the local Latino commu-nity. But, she said, the process needs bet-ter engagement with those local residents, who also could be displaced by redevel-opment in the area. “I want to make sure the immigrant minority communities are at the table when these decisions happen,”

Liou said.Perez, noting that he is Hispanic, said

he has heard that concern and is working with Brookhaven’s Latin American Asso-ciation on Spanish-language workshops about the Greenway.

Regional connectivity is a larger goal of the plan. While the Greenway is getting a start in Brookhaven, the ultimate goal is a park and trail along the entire north fork of the Peachtree Creek, which runs from Mercer University in unincorporat-ed DeKalb County to near the PATH400 trail in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood.

The Greenway concept was spearhead-ed by a nonprofit called North Fork Con-nectors, which is in the process of chang-ing its name to Peachtree Creek Greenway, Inc., according to board chair Betsy Egg-ers.

Brookhaven’s draft Greenway plan is the result of input from a previous town hall meeting; two meetings of a stakehold-ers committee; and meetings with some neighborhood groups. The next step is to update the plan based on input from the Oct. 22 meeting and present a new draft to the City Council and the public.

A final draft should be done around December, with the final plan in place ear-ly next year.

Peachtree Creek Greenway could offer many trails

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A draft image of potential Peachtree Creek Greenway at Brookhaven trails, with an “urban promenade”

at left overlooking other types of trails.

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With all the re-cent turmoil in DeKalb County gov-ernment, it is easy to forget that the DeKalb delega-tion to the state Legis-lature took key steps to-ward reform in this year’s General Assembly.

Two reforms -- the establishment of an independent internal auditor and purchasing reform are being im-plemented now -- but the third re-form, reorganization of our Board of Ethics, requires voter approval in the election Nov. 3 to go into e� ect.

I urge you to go to the polls and vote ‘yes’ on Board of Ethics reform.

DeKalb’s Board of Ethics has been handicapped in the past decade by ne-glect and abuse.

Until two years ago, when I car-ried the board’s request for a budget increase from $1,500 to $140,000 per year, the board was denied the resourc-es required to hire a sta� and conduct investigations. Worse, appointments

to the board were ignored by the CEO and the presiding o� cers of the Board of Commissioners, so the membership dwindled and they couldn’t consistent-ly draw a quorum to conduct business.

When these failings became pub-lic, ethics board leaders were removed and replaced with political support-ers. � e board we have now is limp-ing along, but this year’s legislation could go a long way to right the ship.

� e key elements of the reform subject to voter approval include:

Board Composition: Instead of the current 7-year terms, appointed by the CEO and commission, the seven mem-bers of the board of ethics will serve staggered 3-year terms, and will be ap-pointed by the DeKalb County Bar As-sociation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Legislative delegation, the judge of Probate Court, the chief judge of the Superior Court, a committee of the six major colleges and universities in DeKalb, and Leadership DeKalb. Ap-pointments are time-limited, members must reside in DeKalb County, and sat-isfy standards ensuring that there are no con� icts of interest.

Scope of Responsibility: Juris-diction is expanded to include all ap-pointed o� cials, employees and con-tractors with the county, paid or

unpaid, as well as the CEO and coun-ty commissioners.

Sta� : One sta� position, not to ex-ceed a six-year term with responsibil-ities to include: educating the board on ethical conduct, monitoring a “hot line” for complaints and reports of al-leged violations, reporting suspected vi-olations to the board, obtaining disclo-sure reports and � ling an annual report with the board, the CEO and the pub-lic. � e board’s budget will be guaran-teed to support sta� and operations.

Penalties: Violations of the Code of Ethics will include public reprimands; � nes not to exceed $1,000; referrals for prosecution in State Court, and upon conviction, � nes of up to $1,000 pervi-olation and up to 6-months imprison-ment. In the case of a contractor, con-tract will be suspended and individual disquali� ed from performing work as a contractor or sub-contractor in DeKalb County in the future.

� e question on the ballot states: “Shall the Act be approved which re-vises the Board of Ethics for DeKalb County?” I’m voting “yes” and hope you will, too.

Je� Rader represents District 2 on the DeKalb County Commission.

Seal brings laughsI read your recent article [“Bacon

or Flames? City seal design options are narrowed down,” Brookhaven Report-er, Oct. 16-29] with amused bemuse-ment. I’ve also reread it a couple times when I feel like laughing. Fortunate-ly, the city seal is not a big deal (for me) but the actions of the City Council are disturbing, once you stop laughing. If this is how they are on small issues, then what do they do on others?

So, to recap...Bates Mattison be-lieves the seal is an important issue that “is not something to go back and change.” He’s spent $2,000 on it and wants to spend another $2,500. Fine.

� en he puts out a public survey for civic feedback on SurveyMonkey. He also does a very poor job advertising this public survey on his important is-sue because I, for one, certainly never heard of it. � en he is too cheap and dumb to realize that the free version of SurveyMonkey only accepts 100 votes, even though it is plainly stated on

their website (https://www.surveymonkey.com/pricing/), where for only $300 he could have had all the respons-es he wanted for this survey and others for a year. Nice job, Bates.

But wait, my chuck-ling from city bumbling does not stop there. � en he “accidentally erased” the results of the votes. I’ve used Survey-Monkey before; erasing a � le is not that easy. Perhaps he did not like the results of the vote. Regardless, the level of in-eptitude in this series of events is pret-ty bad once you stop laughing. May-be the council can get one of their kids to do a better job surveying next time.

While Linley Jones pooh-poohs the idea of SurveyMonkey, I’d like to think we have representatives that wel-come input from their constituents. So now the City Council, who already had demonstrated their incompetence in (at least) this matter, has decided to make the decision amongst themselves with input from “the artistic eyes of some

sta� members.” � is ap-proach troubles me.

If the city wants to seem more transparent and less like fools, then plop down $300 for a survey and let their cit-izens chime in after ad-vertising it...and the

votes be taken into account, even by Linley Jones. Also, let some kid tally the results for the cost of a pizza and a six-pack of beer...just not one of Bates Mattison’s kids, obviously. � at should be in the city budget.

Better yet, since the Brookhaven leadership is about to be voted out of o� ce, maybe they should refrain decid-ing on issues that one cannot go back and change altogether.

As a � nal thought, this whole epi-sode reminds me of a “Parks & Recre-ation” episode I saw recently. “Parks & Recreation” is a comedy; I don’t think that is the standard we should be aim-ing towards.

John Hess

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The Savor Sandy Springs Restaurant Week, returning Nov. 2-8 for its second year, is one of many similar promotions boosting the dining business around the Perimeter and the nation. But there’s something special about the group or-ganizing it, the Sandy Springs Restau-rant Council, and about how Restaurant Week fits into its much bigger business plan.

An initiative of the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce, the Restaurant Council hosts expert speak-ers at monthly meetings and is organiz-ing quarterly public events with the goal of putting the city on the metro Atlanta fine-dining map.

The Restaurant Council model could become influential amid talk of Dun-woody and Sandy Springs possibly col-laborating on future Restaurant Weeks, and as the young city of Brookhaven considers creating its own.

“Basically, the purpose of the Restau-

rant Council is to make Sandy Springs a fine-dining destination,” said Karen Try-lovich, the council’s chair. “People go down Ga. 400 to get to Buckhead and bypass Sandy Springs ... when we have over 500 restaurants in Sandy Springs.”

The council made a splash in Au-gust with its new football season cook-out party that drew hundreds of custom-ers. At a recent council meeting, Jason Sheetz, the owner of the Hammocks Trading Company restaurant, praised the group’s model.

“We have massive momentum,” Sheetz said, adding that with its Restau-rant Week program, “You can absolutely see the increase in business year-to-year.”

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Rick Tapia admits he got really inter-ested in bourbon only fairly recently. He’d been a vodka man.

“Growing up in the Northwest, you grew up drinking vodka, rum, maybe some Jack [Daniels] and Coke,” he said. “I don’t recall any bourbon. It wasn’t sexy at the time.”

But times change. Bourbon turned sexy after all. And Tapia, who was born in Peru and grew up near New York, now lives in Sandy Springs and has created his own brand of bourbon, the favorite whiskey of the Amer-ican South. He hopes it will catch on as part of a new interest in small batch bourbons.

He named his whiskey J.R. Revelry. Th e “J.R.” represents his initials; his full name is Jesus Ricardo Tapia. Th e “Revel-ry” part of the name suggests celebration, he said. And the design on the label of his bottles – a black bowler – is a nod both to good times and his family’s roots in South America, where the round-topped hats still represent high fashion in some areas.

Tapia is quick to point out that his bourbon is 100 percent American-made. It says so right on the label, in Spanish. (“Th e Spanish on the label was for me, a personal thing,” he said. “I was saying, ‘Hey, I’m Latino.’”) His bourbon, which sells for $30 to $40 a bottle, is distilled in Indiana and bottled in Nashville, he said. Even the stoppers are made in the U.S., he said.

Tapia, who’s 44, comes by his interest in producing spirits through experience. He actually started out as an accountant (In college, “I knew I couldn’t do a fl uff y degree,” he said.), but quickly moved to working as a promoter for various nation-al and international liquor companies. He promoted vodka, tequila, even the occa-sional Scotch. He worked for various com-panies during his 18 years in the business.

About nine years ago, he and his wife planned to move from the Northeast to

Miami for his job. But liquor companies buy and sell one another all the time, he said, and before his transfer was complet-ed, his company was bought by anoth-er company and they found themselves headed to Georgia, instead. “My wife and I were a bit surprised,” he said.

In Georgia, he discovered bourbon. “When I moved here was when I learned

about it and started drinking it on a regular basis,” he said.

When his company was sold again a couple of years ago, he and his family faced another corporate transfer, which would have required starting over in

another town. So he decided to head off on his own, “to create my own brand,” he said.

He knew what he liked in the bour-bons he drank himself, he said, so he “re-verse blended” his own brand to get a smooth bourbon that would mix well in cocktails, he said.

And small batch bourbons now seem to be the hot commodity. “Th ings were changing. Th e whiskey thing was start-ing to happen,” he said. At the same time, in the world of selling whiskey, “the eco-nomics of creating a brand had complete-ly changed. Craft brewing had evolved to craft distilling.”

Now Tapia takes bottles of J.R. Revel-ry to golf tournaments, offi ce parties, hap-py hour tastings - wherever he can fi nd a group of people willing to try a taste. He fi gures it’s the best way to go up against the big companies he used to work for. “Who knows? Maybe someday they’ll buy my company,” he joked.

His whiskey now is sold in six states, he said. But competition is tough. “Th ere are new brands everywhere,” he said. “We say there’s the ‘browning of American pol-itics’ and then ‘the browning of Ameri-ca...’” Maybe the time has come, he said, for tastes to turn to darker drinks.

“It fi ts,” he said. “It’s good for us. It’s good for America.”

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Mercedes-Benz USA’s relocation to Sandy Springs is sparking a “transfor-mation” of the luxury automaker, Pres-ident and CEO Steven Can-non told a crowd of hundreds at the Oct. 20 Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Com-merce luncheon.

Cannon also discussed Mercedes’ forthcoming new offi ce tower and charitable programs. And he voiced his optimistic hope of having a 20-minute commute from his new Buckhead home.

“What started as a move from Montvale, N.J., to At-lanta has been a transforma-tion for the company,” Can-non said, describing Mercedes’ move to the Perimeter as a cre-ative shake-up. “It’s almost got a start-up feeling to it at our tem-porary headquarters.”

Th at temporary site is in Dun-woody, where the company will remain through 2017, until the fi rst phase of its new headquarters off Abernathy Road in Sandy Springs is built. Cannon de-scribed the “open-fl oor, transparent” in-terior design of the forthcoming towers.

“I said to the architects, ‘Build a building around a town hall concept,’” where employees can quickly and easily gather for meetings, he said. “Th e cubi-cle culture…that’s going away.”

Cannon said that local hiring has gone better than expected. He said he appreciates the welcome and off ers of support he has received here.

In a sign of the political part of that support, Cannon was seated at a table with the mayors of Brookhaven, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs.

“Th ere’s a great migration going on in this country,” Cannon said, with many people moving from the North to the “smile states” of the Southeast, South and Southwest. In that sense, Mercedes’

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Cannon answered questions from

Jim Fitzpatrick, CEO of CBT Automo-tive Network, a Sandy Springs-based au-tomotive industry news outlet.

CBT provided a comedic video about the top 10 reasons for buying a Mercedes here, including use of an “exclusive Mer-cedes HOV lane” and a self-driving car that would pilot itself to Sandy Springs’ forthcoming City Walk apartments.

Of course, local traffi c and commut-ing nightmares are no joke, and Mer-cedes is well aware of that part of its move. Th e company is already facing challenges in Dunwoody.

“We’re looking at some fl ex-time op-tions” to stagger employee commute times, Cannon said in an interview af-ter the luncheon. Th e new generation of employees expect such fl exibility in life-style, too, he said.

“Look, if you don’t off er millennials those kinds of options, you’re not go-ing to hold onto them,” Cannon said. “You’ve got to change the way you do business.”

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“It’s a unique way for residents and visitors to try restaurants they wouldn’t try otherwise, and to try them at a fixed price point,” said Katie Bishop, execu-tive director of the Dunwoody CVB, which has organized a Restaurant Week in collaboration with the city and the Dunwoody Perimeter Chamber each June since 2011. This year’s Dunwoody Restaurant Week had 17 restaurants offering lunch menus and 24 offering dinner menus.

Dunwoody copied the Restaurant Week idea from other places, Bish-op said, but the CVB has tried some homegrown efforts, too. One exam-ple was the “Wine-ing About Win-ter” event, running in January of 2013 and 2014, with restaurants offering dis-counted meals or bottles of wine dur-ing a dead-of-winter week. “We just want to affect the bottom line that week,” Bishop said. “We’re just trying to drive business into what is a slower week for restaurants.”

She and other Restaurant Week or-ganizers acknowledge that measuring the impact is difficult. “Each restau-rant owner has their own way of do-ing things,” said Trylovich, “so it’s re-ally hard to know what that impact is.”

The debut Georgia Restaurant Week, a statewide event in July ar-ranged by the Buckhead-based Geor-gia Restaurant Association, in collab-oration with the state Department of Economic Development, shows how the measurements can be tricky. At first glance, an association report looks pret-ty good: total sales over $900,000; 500 meals ordered from the special menus; 42 percent of customers showing up to try a new restaurant and 81 percent

“highly likely” to return.But with 96 participating restau-

rants, that means each location sold less than one Restaurant Week menu meal per day. The sales figure includes all res-taurant revenue, not just any above-av-erage bump that week. And only 35 customers responded to the survey.

Thirty percent of the restaurants saw a business boost, said association spokeswoman Melanie Charyton. She emphasized it was the statewide Res-taurant Week’s first year, adding that “we hope to build on this next year and create more revenue for our restau-rants.”

The Sandy Springs Restaurant Council is aiming beyond the quick-hit Restaurant Week model to brand the city as a dining hotspot like Buckhead or Midtown. The council formed in late 2013 when Mayor Rusty Paul was serving as the Chamber’s board chair and heard the call for more restaurant promotions. “As far as greater Atlanta is concerned, Sandy Springs is a restau-rant desert,” Paul said at a recent City Council meeting about the Restaurant Council effort.

About 15 people attended a recent council meeting at Seven Hens, includ-ing restaurant owners and representa-tives from the city, the chamber and the Perimeter Center Improvement Dis-tricts. One agenda item was the Res-taurant Week’s cross-promotion with an older tradition, the Sandy Springs Society’s Elegant Elf event. (Several res-taurants will serve “Elf-tini” cocktails.)

“It’s been collaborative amongst us. It’s not a competitive thing,” said Tisha Rosamond of Nothing Bundt Cakes, describing the council as a “partnership as well as friendship.”

Barbara Boukater, whose 5 Seasons Brewing hosted the football kickoff event, said the collaboration is “driv-ing home that this is a neighborhood effort. Keep it in Sandy Springs.”

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About 15 people attended a recent Sandy Springs Restaurant Council meeting at Seven Hens on Roswell Road.



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Free Park DayWednesday, Nov. 11 – In honor of Veterans Day, the National Park Service off ers a free park day at select locations across the nation. One such participating park is the Chattahoochee River Na-tional Recreation Area, and visitors are invited to enjoy the grounds and property with no entrance fees. More information can be found at nps.gov/fi ndapark/feefreeparks. Chattahoochee River Na-tional Recreation Area, 1978 Island Ford Pkwy., Sandy Springs, 30350.

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Susan Tourial could barely contain her enthusiasm.

“I’m ready to go already. How much longer?” she asked one recent afternoon as she sat at the kitchen table of her San-dy Springs home. “I’m ready to start. Get this party started, already!”

She wouldn’t have to wait much longer. The party she eagerly await-ed is the Marcus Jew-ish Community Center of Atlanta’s 24th annu-al book festival. It starts Nov. 5 and continues through Nov. 22.

Tourial’s enthusiasm is understandable. This year, she co-chairs the event. She’s been in-volved with the festival for five or six years and started working on this year’s edition last Janu-ary.

Besides, she thor-oughly enjoys this an-nual showcase of Jewish writing that has grown from presenting just three authors in its first year to hosting more than 40 this year, in-cluding such recognizable names as Ted Koppel, Alan and Arlene Alda, Mitch Albom and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. “We feel like this is our gift to the communi-ty, to have the caliber of some of these authors,” Tourial said.

Besides, she said, “it’s so much fun. It’s probably the most fun volunteer thing I have ever done.”

Through the years, the festival also has been fun for the writers, too, she said. More than 13,000 book fans are expected to attend the festival’s events this year. And they buy books, Tourial said. “Over 24 years, Atlanta has built up a really good reputation for the num-ber of people in our audience, the way we treat authors and the fact we sell books,” Tourial said.

Author Joey Reiman of Buckhead, who will discuss his book, “Thumbs Up! Five Steps to Create the Life of Your Dreams” on Nov. 22, calls the Marcus Center festival “one of the most impor-tant festivals that has ever been creat-ed.” Part of its appeal comes from its at-tachment to the Marcus Center, which was named for Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, Reiman said. “In Jewish nomenclature, there is something called a mensch,” he said. “A mensch is a genu-ine human being in the moral and ethi-cal arena. When I see Bernie is involved with an organization, the word mensch comes up.”

The festival’s appeal also is based on the authors it chooses to present and how it presents them, Tourial said. More than 200 volunteers are involved in 14 different committees that put on the fes-tival, according to the MJCCA.

From 75 to 100 volunteers are in-volved in the author se-lection process, Tourial said. Some read books and rate them. Some take part in one annu-al event, held in New York, that functions as sort of “speed dating” between writers and book festival officials from across the coun-try, she said. Other au-thors are chosen after their publicists contact festival officials to pro-mote their work, she said.

Is it worth all the work? “I think it’s an important thing to

do,” Tourial said. I think it’s an important cultur-al festival for the whole community. Atlanta’s a big community. I grew up in a Jewish Atlanta

where there were maybe five synagogues. Look how many there are now.”

Besides, she said, “I love to read. When I started going to the book festi-val, I realized how much I enjoyed hear-ing an author talk about their process.”

So, after months of putting the fes-tival together, Tourial is eager to get things started.

“I really and truly enjoy it,” she said enthusiastically. “It’s fun.”

JOE EARLE

Susan Tourial, co-chair of the Marcus Jewish

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There’s a train that runs past a drive-in theater showing “Gone with the Wind,” over Savannah’s famous River Street, alongside an Atlanta Steel plant, and into the Georgia mountains. It’s called the My Way Railroad, and it makes the entire trip in a basement on Nesbit Ferry Road.

Mike and Lee Dunn’s enormous model train layout was one of sever-al Sandy Springs stops on Oct. 25 on an open-house tour called the Piedmont Pil-grimage. Hundreds of model railroad fans

made the trip, and will visit more layouts in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs as the open houses continue through November.

“It gets bigger every year,” said Dave Bennett of Woodstock’s Train Installa-tions, who built the layouts for the Dunns and many other model-railroaders.

In fact, Sandy Springs is an epicen-ter of the old-school hobby. The regional Piedmont Division of the National Mod-el Railroad Association meets month-ly at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, sometimes drawing 100 members. Ben-nett stays busy working with many mem-bers, making home visits in a locomotive-style van outfitted with a cowcatcher and a smokestack. He also maintains the train layout running in the Children’s Health-care hospital on Pill Hill, an item donated by one of his customers.

Building a model train layout can take years and cost $1,500 to $15,000—or way more, for layouts such as the My Way line, said Bennett. The Dunns’ layout fills a 30-by-25-foot room with 500 feet of track and realistic murals providing a 360-de-gree background.

“I guess it’s in the genes,” said Mike Dunn. He got hooked on model trains as a kid in Los Angeles, then became an entrepreneur and a fan of trap-shooting. Years later, after coming South, he learned his great-great-grandfather was a trap-shooter and president of the Central of Georgia Railway.

“I’m the historian,” said Lee Dunn,

who’s writing a book about her husband’s ancestor. She pointed out some of the lay-out’s small details that were often charm-ing or humorous, such as “Wicked Wan-da’s,” a miniature railroad brothel.

Small details and family roots were themes in all the local layouts. At Joe Nichols Jr.’s Ridgemont Drive home, fa-ther Joe Sr. helped him run a recreation of 1917-era Colorado gold-hauling train.

Joe Jr. and Joe Sr. share a name, a pro-fession—they’re both surgeons—and the

family hobby. They’re both NMRA-certified “Master Model Rail-roaders,” only the third father-son pair to have the status, Joe Sr. said. The elder Nichols will open his home on the Nov. 7 Piedmont Pil-grimage date, and his son will return the fa-vor by helping to run it. “He’s got one of the biggest layouts in town,” around 1,000 square feet, said Joe Jr.

The space, cost and time needed to build

a layout mean that most hobbyists get into it later in life, Joe Jr. said.

“The biggest limita-tion is cost,” he said. “The second limita-tion is getting permission from your wife.” That’s Lynn Nichols, who confirmed some complex negotiations underway about some extra basement square-footage.

Many of Joe Jr.’s Colorado mountains were still unfinished Styrofoam carvings, and he isn’t picky about the complexi-ties of switches and signals on the minia-ture railroad. “I don’t care if they derail,” he said, explaining that he enjoys building the train models more than running them.

For Robert Young, who runs a minia-ture Pennsylvania Railroad in his Hunters Trace Circle basement, the appeal is cre-ating trackside scenes—people fishing, fire trucks leaving a station and hundreds more events packed into the landscape.

“It’s vignettes,” said Young. “You pick an area and it tells a little story. That’s the part I enjoy, is detailing it.”

Young has worked on his layout since 2006. His love for the hobby was passed on by his father, who built a layout about 50 years ago. Some components of that layout are in Young’s setup today.

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Nearly every fall, Viju Rao and his family throw a huge party.

Th ey invite crowds of guests to their home — “everybody that we meet on the street in Dunwoody, plus all of [daughter] Devika’s friends,” Rao said. “Most of them have started asking, ‘When’s Diwali this year?’”

Th is year, Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, will be celebrated Nov. 11. Piy-ush Behre, a volunteer with the Hindu Temple of Dun-woody, said the holiday is mostly celebrated in homes.

Diwali commemo-rates “the day Rama comes back to his kingdom after 14 years—that’s why all the lights,” Viju Rao said. “Th e kingdom lights up and ev-erybody celebrates the return of the king.”

In Dunwoody, Hindu families hang on to their cultural heritage by celebrat-ing the stories and the traditions. Devi-ka Rao described the celebration as “fi re sparklers, food, friends, family and lots of

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local temple or consider themselves reli-gious Hindus, “we are cultural Hindus,”

Viju Rao said, and happy to celebrate the holiday.

“Th e cultural part is very peaceful, very secular,” Devika Rao added.

Viju Rao said a Hin-du guides himself with two books, one of which is the “Ramayana,” an 8,000-word epic poem written in Sanskrit about the story of Lord Rama. “Th ese stories are not religious,” Rao said. “Th ey’re just mythology.”

Sunitha Gandava-di teaches Sanskrit to chil-dren at the Hindu Temple of Dunwoody. She, too, says

culture and spirituality outweigh reli-gious dogma. “We just say we are Hin-dus because of the festivals we celebrate,” Gandavadi said.

She added she and her friends “are not religious in a way that would look down on another religion.” “We don’t,” Ganda-vadi said. “Even back in India, we went to Catholic schools.”

When people understand the mes-sages in myths, such as tales about Lord Rama, Rao said, the stories teach about morality. “Th e fact is it’s a very intelli-gent, smart way to teach a common-er,” Rao said. “If you spend a little time thinking about it, and reading about In-dian spirituality, you start to understand why they told these stories.”

He says his family is celebrating the new year when he invites people for Di-wali, which mirrors Christmas because people exchange gifts and sweets. Ac-countants get their books blessed “so they can cheat for the rest of the year,” Rao joked.

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I fi nally decided to follow my son’s Tumblr account, seeing as he’s currently on the other side of the globe and at one point interviewed the opposition lead-er in some sort of uprising in Macedo-nia. His activities have piqued my in-terest enough for me to make the eff ort to logon and sign up.

His activities have piqued my inter-est enough for me to make the eff ort to logon and sign up..

And what an eff ort it was! Usu-ally it’s my password that doesn’t pass muster, which is why I now have ap-proximately 43 variations on my orig-inal (six-letter/one-digit) password-of-choice, each with a slight deviation of capitals, digits and letters, and therefore all now completely im-possible to recall. But again, this time I was able to slip by easily with my newly updat-ed, backup eight-let-ter/one-digit password-of-choice (which I will still probably forget). Th is time, it was the username that got me.

Of course “rob-in” wouldn’t work—I didn’t even attempt that. But I had created a handy new username, “alwayswrite,” that I have used before on other sites and consid-ered somewhat clever in a punny sort of way, and which I can actually remember.

So I keyed it in, but that one was taken. I could chose “I-alwayswrite-blog,” which completely loses the pun, or “awesomealwayswritelove,” which is an awful username. So, no. I could also choose “youralwayswrite,” which I would never, ever do, because your in this case should actually be the contrac-tion you’re, and I would rather melt my keyboard into a useless metal blob than choose a username that so defi les one of the most basic grammar rules.

I could, of course, revise the name to read “youralwayswritemother,” but that also blows the pun right out the win-dow. So, no.

Th e feeble fl icker of username cre-ativity that I possess had already been expunged upon the name “alwayswrite,” so I looked around for inspiration. My geraniums are still in bloom in the blue pot on my back deck, so I typed in, “ge-ranium.”

I was stunned to be informed that “someone has already claimed your username,” even when it was so com-pletely random, and I was off ered the names “geranium-things,” “a-gerani-um,” (both of which are stupid, I’m sure you agree), and “omg-geranium,” which is not only stupid, but juvenile. So, no.

Th rough-out this exer-cise, however, the Tumblr site off ered me a collec-tion of new and unsullied usernames, such as “SecretPhilosopherBouquet,” and “AtomicBluebirdFart,” which were admittedly tempting, but didn’t quite feel right. So, no.

Still on the fl ower theme, I tried “hon-eysucklerose,” but that was also taken. I could be “bat-honeysucklerose,” which doesn’t even make sense, or “honeysuck-lerose-stuff ,” which is equally inane. No, and no. Tumblr, meanwhile, of-fered me “TenaciousFuryStudent,” and

“UnadulteratedNin-jamoon,” but neither of those really defi ne me, so, no.

I was getting testy now. Our ample bowl-ful of Halloween candy prompted me to go all-out with “99%choc-olate,” a name which not only describes my diet, but also my fa-vorite Lindt choco-late bar. I came awful-ly close with that one, but was informed that “Tumblrname can only contain letters, num-bers and dashes,” al-though I could choose “omg99chocolate-

blog,” which again, for reasons men-tioned, I would never do.

On the suggestion of one of my twins, I typed in “99chocolate” and was fi nally admitted to an entirely new page, but then demurred, because I was not ready to abandon the qualifying “%.”

So I backtracked, and of course, had to start all over again. But I was re-warded with a new off ering: “Teenage-DoughnutEarthquake,” which my own teenage son thought fi t me perfectly, and which convinced me that check-ing out username suggestions on Tum-blr could become a habit.

Committed to my username deci-sion, I typed in “99percentchocolate,” which did indeed and at last work. But now I was forced to reveal my age (because Tumblr did not accept “old enough” and because I cannot tell a lie, not even to Tumblr). I then assured Tumblr that I am not a robot, and that was all it needed to know in order to present me with a veritable landslide of Tumblr accounts prime for the follow-ing.

It doesn’t understand. I’m only here to follow my son.

Robin Conte is a writer and mother of four who lives in Dunwoody. She can be contacted at [email protected].

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While many Atlanta-area high school students spent the summer lying out by the pool, Holy Spirit Pre-paratory School junior John Arnold was feeding hungry children. Last summer, John coordinated a community-wide lunch-making effort in partnership with Action Min-istries that made 300 lunch-es per week for disadvantaged children in College Park and East Point.

“I was so enthralled with this ministry because it struck me that there were children in this nation, a nation with so much global affluence and respect, who relied so heavily on the public school systems and private donations for some-thing as simple as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” John said.

During his sophomore year, John spent every Sunday and Tuesday night with his family making lunches for Ac-tion Ministries, but he was not satisfied with this level of commitment. Upon re-alizing that many children go hungry in the summer when they are unable to re-ceive free or reduced-cost lunches from school, John organized a weekly sand-wich-making mission in the main hall of Holy Spirit Catholic Church.

“I was the person going through the process of coordinating dates for sand-wich making, figuring out how many people could show up, actually making the lunches, as well as delivering all the lunches to the sites,” said John.

The sandwich-making ministry soon became a part of ONE Apostolate, Holy Spirit Prep’s community service organi-zation that serves the homeless. By the end of the summer, the initiative had

made 1,950 lunches for hungry chil-dren.

This school year, John is serving as president of ONE Apostolate. The sand-wich ministry is not as active during the school year, so the organization focuses

on volunteering at soup kitch-ens and sewing sleeping bags for the homeless.

When not engaging in community service, John is a competitive archer. He still finds time to excel academical-ly, too, and counts Latin, AP Calculus and AP U.S. History among his favorite classes.

“John is very bright and very driven,” said Jill Stedman, John’s AP U.S. History teach-er and ONE Apostolate advi-

sor. “He is one of the best crit-ical thinkers I have taught during my career. John will be able to accomplish anything he sets his mind to. He has a strong work ethic, and he has a person-ality that inspires his peers to be excited and engaged in their work.”

“John’s maturity, respect for others and love of ideas is inspiring,” added John’s homeroom teacher, Archie Deen. “John’s ability to relate to all sections of our school community, and his respect-ful and engaging connection with his teachers speaks to the wonderful young man he has become.”

What’s Next:John is looking at University of Geor-

gia, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Harvard and Yale. He hopes to take what he has learned through the sandwich ministry to college to operate a “feed the hungry” service group. He plans on a career in law.

This article was reported and written by Catherine Benedict, a senior at The Westminster Schools.

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Let’s channel our inner artistBrookhaven hosted its first “Paint the Park” party on Oct. 25 at

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Women in police departments often bring a sensitive and compassionate side to law enforcement, Ruffi ni said. “Having fe-males is always an asset,” Ruffi ni said. “We look at things diff erently.”

Ruffi ni said she and other women in policing would be called in cases involv-ing children or victims of domestic abuse. “[Children] are more likely to respond to me than a male,” Ruffi ni said. “I’ll hang out with the child while we try to fi nd the adult.”

But Rausch said she thinks a police force can eff ectively enforce and commu-nicate with its citizens without having an offi cer to represent every ethnicity, faith or

gender.White disagrees. She said she believes a

police force needs offi cers who should rep-resent the races, beliefs and gender in the community they serve.

“Oftentimes, citizens are comfortable when they know the offi cer responding understands their customs, practices and religion, and can directly relate to the situ-ation at hand,” White said.

Rausch said she wondered if she had a skewed perception because the two agen-cies where she has worked as an offi cer had women in investigative roles for sensitive situations. She said she’s never felt her co-workers don’t respect her or that suspects treat her diff erently because of her sex.

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“I don’t know if it’s the motherly side of females—they seem to handle crimes that are serious crimes against females such as rape or crimes against kids,” Rausch said. “I don’t mean to seem sexist, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man in those posi-tions, but this is only my second agency.”

White, on the other hand, argues com-passion is the key.

“I believe it’s more about chemistry and experiences, more than the sex of the individual,” White said. “Depending upon the current traumatic situation or due to past incidents, our main focus is making the victim comfortable enough to share their story and bring the sus-pects to justice.”

Brookhaven Police BlotterBrookhaven police blotter:

Oct. 9-22

The following information was pulled from Brookhaven’s Police-2-Citizen Portal Event

Search website and is presumed to be accurate.

HOMICIDE 2600 block of Green Meadows Lane—

On Oct. 10, a homicide by gun was re-ported.

ROBBERY 3500 block of Buford Highway—On

Oct. 18, robbery in the street with a gun was reported.

BURGLARY 1400 block of Hearst Drive—On Oct.

9, burglary of a residence was reported.

1500 block of Lake Hearn Drive—On Oct. 13, burglary was reported.

1700 block of Briarwood Road—On Oct. 20, burglary was reported.

AUTO THEFT 1800 block of Buckhead Valley Lane—

On Oct. 10, theft by taking auto was re-ported.

2900 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 12, theft by taking auto was report-ed.

1800 block of Northeast Expressway—On Oct. 12, a stolen vehicle was recov-ered.

1000 block of Pine Grove Avenue—On Oct. 12, theft by taking auto was re-ported.

3000 block of Clairmont Road—On

Oct. 12, theft by taking auto was report-ed.

1000 block of Town Boulevard—On Oct. 13, a stolen vehicle was recovered.

3300 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 15, carjacking was reported.

2000 block of Curtis Drive—On Oct. 17, theft by taking auto was reported.



ASSAULT 3500 block of Buford Highway—On

Oct. 12, battery was reported and an ar-rest was made.

3400 block of Blair Circle—On Oct. 12, simple battery was reported.

2500 block of Briarcliff Road—On Oct. 14, simple assault was reported, and arrests were made for simple assault and battery.

100 block of Executive Park Drive—On Oct. 15, simple battery was reported.

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1200 block of Dresden Drive—On Oct. 14, an arrest was made for sexual ex-ploitation of children.

3100 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 14, harassing communications were reported.

First block of Executive Park Drive—On Oct. 15, an arrest was made for sim-ple battery.

3300 block of Clairmont Road—On Oct. 16, simple battery was reported.

1300 block of North Cliff Valley Way—On Oct. 19, aggravated assault with a weapon was reported.

3300 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 19, simple battery was reported.

2900 block of Clairmont Road—On Oct. 20, battery was reported and an ar-rest was made.

2000 block of Curtis Drive—On Oct. 21, battery was reported.

3600 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 21, simple battery was reported.

500 block of Lincoln Court Avenue—On Oct. 22, a verbal dispute was report-ed.

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3000 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 15, forgery of check was reported

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100 block of Perimeter Summit Boule-vard—On Oct. 16, fraud by swindle was reported.

2500 block of Briarwood Road—On Oct. 16, fraud by swindle was reported.

3300 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 17, counterfeiting was reported.

1100 block of Bailiff Court—On Oct. 19, fi nancial identity fraud was reported.

1700 block of Regency Park Walk—On Oct. 19, fraudulent activity was re-ported.

1400 block of Briarwood Road—On Oct. 21, fi nancial identity fraud was re-ported.

THEFT/LARCENY 2900 block of Clairmont Road—On

Oct. 10, theft was reported; On Oct. 17 and 18, entering auto was reported.

2500 block of Ellijay Drive—On Oct. 10, theft was reported.

3500 block of Inman Drive—On Oct. 10, theft of articles from a vehicle was re-ported.

3000 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 10, theft by conversion was reported.

1900 block of North Druid Hills Road—On Oct. 11, entering auto was reported.

4000 block of Peachtree Road—On

Oct. 12, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

1100 block of Clearview Drive—On Oct. 13, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

2100 block of Lake Boulevard—On Oct. 14, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

1100 block of Dorby Park Drive—On Oct. 15, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

1200 block of Ap-ple Valley View—On Oct. 17, theft was reported.

3800 block of Peachtree Road—On Oct. 17, theft was reported.

3300 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 17, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

700 block of Brookhaven Avenue—On Oct. 19, theft was reported.

1000 block of Lenox Park Boulevard—On Oct. 19, theft was reported.

4400 block of Peachtree Road—On Oct. 19, theft was reported.

1400 block of Northeast Expressway—On Oct. 20, theft by receiving stolen property was reported and an arrest was

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2000 block of North Druid Hills Road—On Oct. 20, an arrest was made for shoplifting.

1500 block of Lake Hearn Drive—On Oct. 21, entering auto and thefts of arti-cles from vehicles were reported.

4100 block of Oak Forest Drive—On Oct. 22, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

ARRESTS 2600 block of Buford Highway—On

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2700 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 12, an arrest was made for posses-sion of marijuana.

2900 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 11, arrests were made for brake lights and turn signals required, and for obstruction and interference.

3000 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 18, an arrest was made for disor-derly conduct and an arrest was made for marijuana possession.

3100 block of Buford Highway—On Oct. 19, an arrest was made for hit and run.

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