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More than a hundred MARTA-riding tourists got a taste of Buford Highway’s famed multicultural restaurants—seasoned with expert takes on the corridor’s safety and gentrification challenges—on an April 27 “bus crawl” staged by We Love BuHi and the MARTA Army.

The bus tour and similar programs by We Love BuHi are exposing strong tensions about the highly diverse immigrant commu-nity’s future, and stirring some big ideas for supporting it.

The property manager of the Latino mall Plaza Fiesta, a bus tour stop, in an interview after the tour, blasted Brookhaven for “driv-

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Buckhead Coalition president Sam Mas-sell tried out his new pitch to embrace mil-lennials on one of the community’s old-school audiences, the Buckhead 50 Club, at the group’s May 10 dinner at American Le-gion Post 140 in Chastain Park.

“As homeowners, as individuals, what I’m

Georgians head to the polls May 24 for lo-cal party primaries and non-partisan elec-tions. Sandy Springs has an election for City Council, and Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dun-woody and Sandy Springs all choose nom-inees for the state Legislature. Fulton and DeKalb have school sales-tax votes.

To see if you’re properly registered, where to vote or to view a sample ballot, check the My Voter Page on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website, mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP.

Learn more about local candidates by go-ing to the Voters Guide on pages 12-13. Find the complete versions at ReporterNews-papers.net. Check our website on Election Night for the results in local races.

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MAKING ADIFFERENCEProgram assists Latino children

Hard work, persistence and resilience are more important than raw ability. What you decide to study is more important than where you go to school. Think about growth opportunities when you make your education choices.Gary A. Piligian Math and statistic teacher, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

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From left, Bridgette Sanchez, Vianca Moreno and Annie Neufeld watch their third-grade classmates learn the Mexican Hat Dance during International Travelers Week at Garden Hills Elementary School. From May 2 through May 6,

students “traveled” to Mexico, learning the traditions, culture and history of the country and its people.

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Revamped retail center The Exchange brings in new tenants

Pasta and smoothies are coming soon to the former Buckhead Exchange strip mall at Peachtree Road and Grand-view Avenue, where a major renovation is wrapping up this month.

Renamed “The Exchange,” the proj-ect by North Carolina-based FCA Part-ners is an effort to remake a strip cen-ter without following the mixed-use and luxury retail trends.

“We thought there was an opportu-nity…to deliver something in the mid-

dle,” said FCA principal Win Kelly, not-ing that Buckhead retail tends to the extremes of high-end malls and aging strip centers.

Instead of tearing down the old Buckhead Exchange, FCA renovated it over the past two years with modern stylings and more pedestrian access. The main work—including new street-front signage—will wrap up in the next couple of weeks, while tenants contin-ue to sign up and build out their spaces.

SculptHouse, a fitness business, is already open in The Exchange. The pas-ta store Storico Fresco, now on Roswell Road, will move in next month and ex-pand to include a restaurant, bar and Italian market, Kelly said. “It’s a neat concept and something that doesn’t re-ally exist in Buckhead today,” he said.

Other signed tenants include a Kohler plumbing and fixtures signa-ture showroom; the smoothie shop Kale Me Crazy; and the Atlanta-based restaurant chain Yeah! Burger. The Ex-change has room for up to 15 tenants, depending on floor space, and is in ac-tive negotiations with six more busi-nesses, Kelly said.

BUCKHEAD HAMPTON INN PLANS ROOF CHANGE

The Hampton Inn Atlanta-Buckhead owners want to change the hotel’s once-trademark mansard-style roof. At the urging of Special Public Interest Dis-trict 9’s local zoning review committee, they’re open to sprucing up the land-scaping as well.

“The owners want it done right,” said Pierre Patel of Global Management and Investments at the May 3 SPI-9 develop-ment review committee meeting at Tow-er Place 100.

The Hampton Inn chain is getting away from the mansard roof style, and now it’s the 3398 Piedmont Road hotel’s turn. Patel said the owners want to dis-

guise the roofline with a new, lighted cornice. SPI-9 committee members gave some advice on appropriate materials, but also suggested improving the land-scaping in coordination with the Buck-head Community Improvement District, which is planning streetscape improve-ments along that corridor. Patel said the owners are open to the idea, noting it could enhance the hotel’s “curb appeal.”

WEWORK PREPS TOWERWALK OPENING

The New York-based office-sharing business WeWork is prepping its Atlan-ta location in the TowerWalk retail cen-ter at 3365 Piedmont Road.

Renovations to the two-story com-mercial space next to the Tower 100 skyscraper has been underway for months. Exterior signs offering We-Work tours and touting the slogan, “Do What You Love” recently went up.

WeWork offers rented desks and offices. A WeWork spokesperson de-clined to comment, but the company’s social media accounts indicate the At-lanta site is aiming to open this month.

MORE THAN $600,000 RAISED FOR PATH400

Livable Buckhead says it has raised more than $605,000 toward the $9 mil-lion it needs to complete construction of PATH400, a 5.2-mile multi-use trail through Buckhead.

“We’ve exceeded expectations right out of the gate,” said David Lanier, senior managing director of CBRE and a mem-ber of the PATH400 capital campaign committee. “That’s exactly the kind of momentum that we need, and we’re al-ready hard at work, building on this suc-cess and bringing even more supporters on board for PATH400.”

Individual donations accounted for 73 percent of gifts, some as small as $25. Contributions also included a $250,000 matching gift from the Loudermilk Fami-ly Foundation, Livable Buckhead said.

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City plans to move Memorial Park playground so it won’t flood as oftenBY JOE [email protected]

Residents who live near Atlanta Me-morial Park propose the park’s new play-ground include everything from park benches to roller slides when city offi-cials move the play area to higher ground.

City officials are con-sidering relocating the park’s aging playground, which has been inundat-ed with sewage-filled wa-ter from a creek during park floods, to a spot up-hill from the current lo-cation. The playground equipment is located with-in a flood plain that takes in much of the park, city officials said.

“It’s still going to get inundated [during severe floods],” said Daniel Cal-vert, an urban planner with the office of park de-sign. “The hope is it will get inundated less frequently.”

The existing playground equipment is about 10 years old, so parks officials are considering replacing it once the play area is moved, Calvert said. No date has been set for relocating the play area, he said.

On May 5, more than two dozen resi-dents dropped by a public meeting at the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center, which is locat-ed in another portion of the Buckhead park, to offer ideas on what the new play area should include. Residents wrote their suggestions on brightly colored notes and stuck them to display boards featuring

playground designs. Suggestions included “a giant mole-

cule” climbing web like the one at Mor-gan Falls Overlook Park in Sandy Springs, a basketball feature, “big roller slides” like the ones recently installed at Chastain Park, picnic tables and park benches.

Not everyone at the meeting agreed the play-ground should quickly be replaced.

“I think that this proj-ect needs to wait until the ... Peachtree Creek sewage and contamination prob-lem is solved,” said Gail Driebe, who lives near the park. “The current play-ground needs to be moved. This is not an appropriate place for a playground be-cause it gets flooded with contaminated water. ... Within two miles, there are many big playgrounds that are safe and clean.”

But other residents welcomed the proposal.

“We’re excited,” said David Quillian, who said his three children regularly use the playground, which he called “a benefit to the neighborhood.”

“The families with children are over-whelmingly in support what’s being pro-posed here,” Quillian said.

Resident John Adams, who brought along his 6 ½-year-old daughter, Aly, thought the proposal to replace and re-locate the play structures made sense. “We’ve got to get rid of the playground anyway, so we might as well replace it with one in a better location,” Adams said.

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With Saturday School, Los Ninos Primero helps Latino children feel at home in Sandy SpringsBY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWIS

In one classroom, 3-year-old yoga students on blue mats shifted like pros into their “downward dog” and “warrior” positions. In another, 4-year-olds tapped beats on drums to practice counting.

Down the hall, other pre-schoolers created paper pyramids and squares to be tossed in a game. Each side of the figures revealed a direction such as “Count to 50” or “Do something nice for someone.”

This was Saturday School at Los Ninos Primero, now in its 16th year of serving Latino children in a year-round educational program at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church in Sandy Springs.

For the little ones, the morning was all about fun.

For their teachers, fun is a power tool for building a passion for learning, and for nipping in the bud the inhibi-tors to kindergarten readiness that can arise from language and cultural differ-ences and socioeconomic situations.

Every activity had a role in that mis-sion — even yoga, which they teach to prepare the children to deal with stress.

Executive Director Maritza Morelli, a child psychologist, is very sensitive to that need.

“The school and the church are very open and protective and embracing,” Morelli said, “but this is a very differ-ent environment than we see in some other ways.”

Veronica Toscano de Leger, direc-tor of the Georgia Liaison Office of the state government of Guanajuato in Mexico, said Los Ninos Primero is help-ing children who may have difficult home lives flourish with confidence in a loving, welcoming environment.

“That makes a difference in a child. It makes them start working harder to succeed,” she said. “You can see the pas-sion when they play an instrument, the passion when people care for them.”

A church bus picks the children up from across Sandy Springs, where 14 percent of the population is Hispanic or Latino. Ninety-nine percent of the program’s children were born in the U.S. and their first language is Spanish. Most of them are from low-income fam-ilies.

Steve Whisenant, CEO of Haven Campus Communities, was the found-ing chairman of Los Ninos Primero’s board of directors. He said the nonprof-it program was born out of Mount Ver-non’s research on the needs of the ar-ea’s growing Latino population. “We found out very quickly that to say it was underserved was an understate-

ment,” he said.Los Ninos Primero began as a two-

week summer program that served 17

children on the preschool campus of Mount Vernon Presbyterian School.

Today, 250 children participate in its free programs: the three-hour plus lunch Saturday School for 3- and 4-year-olds; a month-long summer pro-

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Volunteer Carmen Morales, 15, started with Los Ninos Primero as a 3-year-old

preschooler. The Riverwood International Charter School student plans a future in medicine, education or criminal justice.

Sophia Monje, 4, gives a goodbye hug to Maritza Morelli, executive director

of Los Ninos Primero, as she leaves the program’s Saturday School.

Los Ninos Primero art teacher Alison Calefati helps Emiliano Salas, 4, left, and

Edwin Esteva, 5, create an educational game.

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gram for ages 3 to 6; and weekday ex-tracurricular activities for ages 5 and up. Orchestra, soccer, karate and cho-rus are offered.

All of the program’s 15 teachers are certified and paid, except for a volun-teer retired teacher. They are assist-ed by dozens of volunteers, including many former Los Ninos Primero stu-dents.

“I think we’ve had about 1,000 chil-dren come through this program,” said Whisenant, who now serves on the pro-gram’s development committee. “I’ve been pleased with the ability to stay vi-able and to grow, and to have a lot of people who feel like we’ve done the right thing, for the right rea-sons.”

Summer pro-gram teacher Katrina Verde sees first-hand the difference Los Ninos Prim-ero makes in school prepared-ness. She is a kindergarten teacher at Sandy Springs’ Lake Forest Elementary School, a school where 94 percent of students are Hispanic and 59 percent of students receive language services.

“Programs like Los Ninos are pret-ty vital for these kids,” Verde said. “We want to bridge the academic gap so that nobody would notice a difference be-tween kids who come from Lake For-est and the kids who come from other schools in our cluster.”

Morelli was lead bilingual com-munity liaison for the Fulton County school system when she was asked to create and lead Los Ninos Primero.

The Venezuelan native was a perfect fit. “Being an immigrant myself, I un-derstand how difficult it is for the par-ents to understand the school’s expec-tations,” Morelli said.

Parent involvement is not only key here, it is required.

“I want parents to feel that that they have something valuable to offer, to help and to feel proud of their own cul-ture,” she said. “Building their self-con-fidence will help the children.”

Morelli said parents help with fun-draising, go on cultural field trips, and must attend at least 50 percent of the classes offered to them, such as school system expectations, their “rights as hu-man beings” and stress management.

“I’m planting hope in these par-ents that their children can go to col-lege, because they were born here and they have more opportunity,” Morel-li said. “They have to believe that. And they will learn, little by little, the steps they need to to make sure the kids are on track.”

Fifty percent of the program’s first 17 students are in college, and Carmen

Morales, 15, is headed that way. The Riv-erwood International Charter School student plans a future in medicine, ed-ucation or criminal justice.

She grew up with Los Ninos Prime-ro, starting in the program as a 3-year-old and staying connected through her family’s participation and her volun-teer work as the program’s assistant soccer coach.

“They gave me fond memories of my childhood and I want to give that back to them,” Carmen said.

She said the program is like a small community for its families.

Carmen’s parents came to the U.S. from Mexico 20 years ago. She rare-

ly sees her father, ex-cept on week-ends, because he works two jobs. Her mother works nights clean-ing three floors of an office build-ing.

“You learn about people who might have the same story as us,” Carmen said, “like the struggle of getting here and then wanting their children to have a bet-ter future than them. … I wish there were more people like Ms. Maritza.”

The school and the church are very open and protective and embracing.MARITZA MORELLI

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Gary Piligian teaches Ad-vanced Placement statistics, statistics and other math classes, including pre-calcu-lus and algebra 2, at Mount Vernon Pres-byterian School in Sandy Springs. He’s been a teach-er for four years. Before teaching, he was trained as an engineer and worked on Wall Street as a finan-cial investment banker. He’s also the school’s cross-country coach and runs marathons.

Q: What attracted you to teaching at first?

A: My path was dif-ferent than that of most teachers - I was an en-gineer by training who worked at a management consulting firm after getting my bachelor’s degree, and, af-

ter I went to graduate school for an MBA, worked in the institutional fixed-income business for 25 years - 11 years for Salo-mon Brothers (now part of Citigroup), and 14 years for Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. I’ve always been interested in education, as it played a huge role in my own career, and was at the stage of my life when I had the fi-nancial flexibility to teach.

Like many non-teacher parents, I was a critic of how kids are taught, and I decid-

ed that instead of simply being a critic, I should try and do something about it. Teaching, done right, is definitely more difficult than most critics think it is. I have tremendous re-spect for my colleagues at Mount Vernon Presbyteri-an School, and I’ve learned a great deal from them.

Q: Has the appeal changed?

A: I love working with the kids and with their par-ents, so from that perspec-

tive, the appeal hasn’t changed at all. I draw energy from seeing the students learn chal-lenging concepts, and from helping them connect the dots between the skills they learn in class and the opportunities that are open to them in the business world.

Q: What keeps you going year after year? A: Honestly, it’s the notes you get every

now and then from a student, a parent of a student, or a former student telling you about the personal impact that you’ve made on the student. That’s the key. I want our students to be successful and then to pay it back when they are in a position to do so.

I’m also fortunate that I work at Mount Vernon, where teachers have the flexibili-ty to experiment with new ideas and tech-nologies to keep things fresh. All teachers at Mount Vernon have learning outcomes that drive our instruction, but we have tre-mendous latitude in how to get our stu-dents to best achieve the learning out-comes. We can tailor our instruction and style to our special expertise. As an exam-ple, the school has let me create a two-se-mester elective for next year - introduction to personal finance, and introduction to investments. These are life-worthy topics, they are right up my power alley and I can involve our parent community as resourc-es. I’m excited to see how this class unfolds next year.

Q: What do you think makes a great teacher?A: I used to think subject matter exper-

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Q: What do you want to see in your stu-dents?

A: I want to see students who are ready to tackle difficult problems; I value resilien-cy and persistence. I try to put the growth mindset into all students - the idea that anyone can learn anything if they put the effort into it.

Q: How do you engage your students? A: The biggest thing students are look-

ing for is relevance. Our Head of School, Dr. Brett Jacobsen, suggested all of our staff read a book called “Future Wise” by David Perkins. The book emphasizes that educa-tors need to make sure the concepts they teach are “life worthy” to students - in oth-er words, is what we are teaching likely to matter to the lives that students are likely to live? That’s a great lens through which to build engagement: Is it relevant, and does it have real-world applicability? I always link what we learn in the classroom to what I actually applied in my role in the invest-ment business; students are clamoring for that type of relevance.

Q: Do you have a project or special pro-gram you use year after year?

A: No. I change up my projects from year to year. You have to keep it fresh - re-fine what you’ve done before that worked well to make it better, and don’t be afraid to jettison things you did in the past that just weren’t that effective.

Q: Is there a “trick” that works to get stu-dents involved?

A: Candy. All students will work for candy. Seriously, there’s no trick - students can tell if you are working hard on their be-half. They can sense that you care, and they

respond in kind. Now, if you can only tell me the key to keeping graduating seniors involved. That’s a tough one, because, quite understandably, they’re starting to put high school in the rear-view mirror as they look forward to college. I love teaching se-niors, because they are mature, they are thinking about their future, and they want to know what it’s like out there in the real world. But it does get challenging to keep them involved as you move toward Gradu-ation Day.

Also, I’m totally honest with my stu-dents. I tell them that I never had the occa-sion to use imaginary numbers in my work experience, but I used the concepts of com-pound growth almost daily. I build trust with my students, and don’t take that trust for granted. If you can expand your role from being a teacher to being a life coach, students appreciate it.

Q: What do you hope your students take away from your class?

A: Hard work, persistence and resil-ience are more important than raw abil-ity. What you decide to study is more im-portant than where you go to school. Think about growth opportunities when you make your education choices - if I were 18 years old today, I’d make sure I’d closely in-vestigate technology, energy, health care and data science.

Effort matters. Luck matters. Ethics matter. Skills matter. Some jobs pay more than others because of supply and de-mand; make sure you get the skills that will put you in high demand, and make sure you protect your reputation. You are the master of your own destiny.

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Question: What is the minimum post-high school education that you think is necessary today to get a good job? Do you think it is worth taking on debt to get more education?

Despite the cost, a college degree remains the key to a good job, according to the people who answered our most recent 1Q survey. Two-thirds of the 200 respondents in the cellphone-based survey consider a college degree the minimum post-high school education needed to find a comfortable spot in the workplace.

“Continuing education increases the chances of getting a better job and con-sequently, making more money,” a 36-year-old Atlanta woman said when asked whether it was worth going into debt to secure a college degree. “It is an investment that is likely to pay off.”

And during this graduation season, when local colleges and high schools award degrees and diplomas to hundreds of new graduates, others echoed her belief that the extra years of schooling were worth the cost. “In today’s world, it is worth the debt to receive higher education,” a 23-year-old Brookhaven woman with a high-school diploma said.

Not everyone saw it that way, however. About 23 percent of the respondents to the survey of adults across the communities served by Reporter Newspapers and At-lanta INtown thought high school graduates could do well with only two years of college education, a few college courses or no college at all. “As an executive for a 200-employee company,” a 41-year-old Buckhead man with a high-school education said, “I’ve found that some of the best people have no degree, but rather a great un-derstanding of the subject matter for a given position.”

Then again, about 10 percent thought college wasn’t enough. New graduates, they said, needed at least a master’s degree.

Others questioned the high cost of college, which often requires students or their families to go deeply into debt. “I have recently graduated with my bachelor’s de-gree,” a 23-year-old Atlanta woman commented. “I think it is crazy how much we have to spend and put ourselves in debt to find a job just to make it. It’s insane that there are no other options than to put ourselves in debt in order to get a job, because to get any decent job today you need at least a bachelor’s degree. I am all about the education, but not being punished financially for receiving it.”

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Total Respondents (200) WHAT RESPONDENTS HAD TO SAY

“Only if that debt can quickly be paid off. The education needs to lead to a job in a field where there is need.”47-year-old Sandy Springs wom-an with a master’s degree

“No, work experience is more important.”61-year-old Sandy Springs man with a college degree

“No, not unless you are in a spe-cific field that requires it (aka doctor, lawyer, etc.).”31-year-old Sandy Springs wom-an with a bachelor’s degree

“Yes, but you need to be strategic and have a career in mind. A degree is only valuable if employers think it is.”31-year-old Brookhaven man with a master’s degree

“Only if it (debt) is flexi-ble and low interest!”51-year-old Buckhead man with a bachelor’s degree

“Depends on how much the job you expect to get will pay.”24-year-old Dunwoody wom-an with a master’s degree

“No. Success is based on effort, de-termination and focus, not finan-cial background. Plenty of rich kids who have access to a college ed-ucation make nothing of it.”40-year-old Atlanta wom-an with a master’s degree

“It’s an investment, but only to get a job that can pay it off.”27-year-old Atlanta man with a graduate degree

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I carried them to term, thirty-eight weeks. They were 6.5 lbs. and 6.7 lbs. and each measured 19.5 inches, a remarkable dual heft for a 5’1 me.

I carried them, hip on hip, side to side, front and back, for the first year. I carried them one at a time -- on a Boppy pillow in my lap and draped across my shoulder. I carried them tandem--strapped into stroll-ers and car seats, in a backpack, and in a front sling. I carried them through colicky days and feverish nights, through Chuck E. Cheese bouncy-ball pits and Chick-fil-A slides.

I shuttled them to school, karate les-sons, swim meets, soccer practice, base-ball games, campouts and Scout meetings. I hauled them to shoe shopping and suit fit-tings, and countless times to REI. I drove them to doctors’ offices and school dances, to birthday party days and movie meet-up nights.

I drove them to airports for departure to grandparent vacations and summer ad-ventures.

I carried them to college visits and spring breaks and school dance picture parties.

This month as I watch my twin boys carry their high school diplomas across the stage, I will continue to feel their weight in my arms.

They may not know it, they may not like it, but they are a part of me and I carry them with me as completely and naturally as I carry my own heart.

And after graduation, I will carry them still.

We all carry our children. They are there in our minds and our guts, our hopes and our fears. We carry them through sickness, disappointments and breakups. When they don’t make the team, when their friends move away, we feel the loss and we share in the sadness. We carry them through health, accomplishments and satisfaction.

When their team wins, when they made the cut, we feel the elation and we share in the thrill. And through all the ups and downs, we carry them…with love and prayer and wringing hands and gleeful hugs.

We teach them to stand and to walk and to be in-dependent; raising self-sufficient adults is, af-ter all, our ul-timate goal. (And yes, you can throw-in “happy,” “well-adjust-ed,” “contrib-uting member of society,” and any num-ber of enriching adjectives, but you get my point). Yet our children are irrevoca-bly connected to us through the bonds of parenthood, and it is within those parental bonds that we carry them.

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quire a traffic control plan involving stop-ping vehicles “until the load went from Point A to Point B. Nothing should be un-der that load.”

The city of Atlanta has similar permit requirements, said spokesperson Jewan-na Gaither. “Public safety is always our top priority,” she said in an email. “All construc-tion activity in our public right of ways, to include material handling and equipment therein, requires a right-of-way construc-tion permit and any associated needed

sidewalk, lane or street closure permits to ensure protection of the public.”

The cities of Brookhaven and Dun-woody do not often have projects us-ing the large tower cranes like the one at One City Walk and do not have spe-cific crane-related construction codes, city spokespersons said. Both cities do re-quire permits and traffic control plans for construction use of a public street’s travel lane.

Dunwoody in 2014 issued special easement permits for tower cranes at the new State Farm tower under con-struction at Hammond Drive and Pe-rimeter Center Parkway. Michael Smith, Dunwoody’s public works director, said those permits were not about carrying loads over the streets, but simply giving permission for the crane’s arms to pass over public right of ways. The city consid-ered it a property-rights issue, not a con-struction code issue, he said.

Dunwoody city spokesperson Bob Mul-len said the city does require all construc-tion projects to follow “federal and state re-quirements, guidelines and best practices.”

The federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration, which governs employee safety issues, has a standard that broadly suggests cranes avoid lifting materials over workers, “consistent with public safety,” said Lindsay Williams, a spokesperson for OSHA’s southeastern regional office. But OSHA does not have

jurisdiction over general public safety, he said.

Shane Adams, president and CEO of Crane Safety Associates of America, an in-spection and training firm in McDonough, Ga., said that a crane’s load-carrying path should be planned to meet voluntary in-dustry standards from the American Na-tional Standards Institute, including one that says: “The operator should avoid car-rying loads over people.”

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Local rules differ on construction cranes hoisting loads over busy streets

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A heavy load of wooden building frames dangles over a portion of Sandy Springs Place on April 29.


A heavy load of wooden building frames dangled from a crane over traffic on a Sandy Springs street April 29. Hoist-ing a load over an open street is a move the crane’s owner says should not happen, and various construction industry guidelines discourage it.

But in the patchwork world of localized construction codes, officials say, that lum-ber lift broke no legal rules in that specif-ic spot, the One City Walk project’s side facing Sandy Springs Place. But the same lift might violate city or state rules if it happened just a few miles away in Buck-head—or even just a few feet away on Ro-swell Road.

In the April 29 incident, workers had placed the load of wood in a travel lane of Sandy Springs Place without any special traffic control. As vehicles drove around the load, two workers connected it to the crane, which then lifted it over moving traffic and onto the job site. The crane is a rental from North Carolina-based Heede Southeast.

“I was like, ‘Holy…’ It’s not the best feel-ing,” said Heede General Manager Jason Kenna about seeing a photo of the lift. “Hoisting loads over occupied streets is not a common practice,” he added, say-ing workers usually will stop traffic “so no one’s under the load.”

Kenna said it appeared the crane oper-ator was working “in the blind,” meaning he could not see the load directly due to the angle and relied on “flaggers,” or ground workers, to direct him. Heede provides only the crane and the operator, not the flaggers, who are general contractor CW Construction’s responsibility, Kenna said.

“We’ll probably do a site visit and talk to the contractor to figure out what happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Kenna said.

Grant Stackhouse, CW’s exec-utive vice president of construc-tion, said that the tightness of the site requires lifts from the street at times, but that the company does not want loads passing over traf-fic. “That isn’t our policy. We want to do our best to not fly things over [the street],” he said.

Stackhouse said the site su-pervisor informed him that traf-fic had been blocked during the April 29 lift, but acknowledged he had not directly witnessed it. Stackhouse said the supervisor has been instructed to emphasize the need for traffic control during crane lifts.

While the crane and contract-ing companies are taking action, the city of Sandy Springs proba-bly would not, because no specific rules cover the situation, said city spokesperson Sharon Kraun.

“Our current code does not cover ‘means and methods’ as it relates to cranes and construction within the city,” Kraun said, add-ing that the state code the city bor-rowed from doesn’t, either. “How-ever, our building inspectors are able to take action if they witness activity that they believe is unsafe or presents a life safety issue.”

One City Walk is also bordered by Roswell Road, a state route where crane operations have different rules. “If GDOT was overseeing this work…we would not have any vehicles moving under our crane, period,” said state Department of Trans-portation spokesperson Annalysce Baker.

On state routes, even moving the crane’s arm over the street requires a “right of way encroachment” permit, said Baker. And hoisting a load over the road would re-

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Massell tells Buckhead’s historic social club to embrace millennialssaying is, don’t see [the new renters] as sec-ond-class citizens,” said Massell to a large-ly quiet response from the 84-year-old so-cial and civic club’s men-only membership.

For those among the Buckhead 50 who weren’t racing out to bike to a collaborative workspace and meet some millennials, Mas-sell—a former Atlanta mayor—also touched on the 2017 may-oral campaign and the fate of Southern hospitality.

In a speech to the Buck-head Business Association last month, Massell debuted his challenge to embrace the thousands of renters coming to Buckhead as a result of the communi-ty’s apartment boom. He repeated the key points to the Buckhead 50 with some up-dated numbers: 49 apartment complexes proposed or underway in Buckhead, with 15,266 total units.

“We’ll have a large supply of newcomers that will be in our community as strang-ers,” said Massell, adding they will seek to patronize or work at a variety of business-es, including, “yes, upscale nightlife.”

With maybe 25,000 young renters com-ing to Buckhead, Massell advised the club members, “Don’t fight it. Don’t think you can avoid it.” Instead, he said Buckhead’s older homeowners should welcome the new generation’s “profile of power” as fu-ture leaders.

“I know you have mixed feelings about what I told you,” Massell said to the qui-et response, though it appeared some re-sponse may have been muted simply be-cause audience members already knew his speech from prior media coverage. Howev-er, one member did ask how to “nurture” the quality of life for Buckhead’s new mil-lennials, with Massell recommending sup-port for Buckhead Coalition initiatives.

On the political front, Massell ran through a list of 11 declared or potential candidates to replace Atlanta Mayor Ka-sim Reed in 2017. He offered brief com-ments on only a few, all of them Atlanta City Council members.

Massell said Kwanza Hall is getting pub-licity and “he’s a factor, I think.” Council President Ceaser Mitchell is “in my opin-ion, probably the front-runner right now,” Massell said, adding, “That’ll change to-morrow” and many times in the race. He had special praise for Mary Norwood, call-ing her the “hardest-working council mem-ber I’ve ever known.”

Fulton County Commissioner Lee Mor-ris, who formerly represented the Buck-head-area District 7 City Council seat, not-ed that the district has been shrinking in size with each redistricting as the popula-tion increases. He asked about the future of Buckhead’s representation, leading Mas-sell to suggest that council redistricting in-

volves “gerrymandering” or favoring of certain demographics or candidates.

“Gerrymandering…may be unconstitu-tional, but nobody’s testing it, that I know of,” Massell said, suggesting it “may be good for somebody to try.”

One member asked Massell about the dwindling of classic Southern hospitality and man-ners, especially in Buckhead. Another audience member bluntly suggested it’s because “so many Yankees and liberals are here now in the city.”

Massell said that the prob-lem is “not Buckhead. It’s urban America,” and offered to rescue Southern hospitality if there’s a

workable way to throw it a life preserver.“You’re not wrong about what you’re

complaining about, and if you come up with an idea, I’ll work on it,” he said. “I’d love to tackle just such a challenge.”

The Buckhead 50 Club’s June meeting will feature a state Department of Trans-portation official speaking about metro Atlanta roadway projects. The club is in-vitation-only, but it’s often seeking new members. For more information, contact club president Michael Moore at 404-667-4762.

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Voters GuideA former Sandy Springs City Council-

man and a Buckhead lawyer meet in the Republican Primary on May 24 to deter-mine who will take the seat in the House of Representatives representing District 52, which covers portions of Buckhead and Sandy Springs.

Graham McDonald of Sandy Springs and Debo-rah Silcox of Buckhead are vying to succeed former Rep. Joe Wilkinson, who de-cided not to seek re-elec-tion. No Democrat has filed to run, so the winner of the Republican Primary will be able to claim the seat.

The Buckhead Report-er submitted questions to the candidates. Here are se-lected responses, edited for space. To see their full an-swers, go to ReporterNews-papers.net.

Also, go to ReporterNewspapers.net on Election Night for coverage of local prima-ries.

Graham McDonaldPracticing business attorney/business owner

Neighborhood/community you live in: North Harbor neighborhood in San-dy Springs

Past political experience: Council-man for the city of Sandy Springs, District 3, from January 2014 through March 2016.

Other experience in the community: Graduate and board member, Leader-ship Sandy Springs; prior president and vice presi-dent, North Harbor Neigh-borhood Association; pri-or vice chairman, Sandy Springs Economic Devel-opment Advisory Com-mittee; member, State Bar of Georgia, Legislative Ad-visory Committee; head

coach (baseball), Sandy Springs Youth Sports, Rookie Red Sox; prior board member, Sandy Springs Bar Associa-tion

Q. Why should the voters choose you?A: My experience on City Council and in

other support to our community makes me uniquely qualified for this new role. I have worked intimately with the traf-fic issues in our community, helped to construct and balance city budgets, dealt first-hand with zoning issues, and worked closely with HOAs and con-stituents to understand and promote their perspectives and goals. These ex-periences and many others that I have gained working in the trenches of city government have given me knowledge and skills that I will utilize at the State House to promote the quality of life in our community and will allow me to hit the ground running on Day One.

Time is of the essence for our com-munity, given the development, growth and pressures going on internally and in neighboring jurisdictions. At the time of qualifying for this State House race, my now-opponent had been meet-ing with leaders across the district for months, expressing her ambitions to run for this House seat. With this knowledge, many of these same leaders, including Rep. Wendell Willard, Mayor Rusty Paul and others in our nonprof-it sector, approached me and asked me to transition my service to the State House to serve an even broader citizen-ry as a strong, knowledgeable and ded-icated advocate. With this groundswell of support, I felt an obligation to serve my neighbors (including my prior city council constituents) in a different ca-pacity for the long-term good of our community.

I am a Republican who favors a com-mon sense, conservative direction for our state. In this election, I was the first candidate to propose increasing the homestead exemption to reduce property taxes for all Fulton homeown-ers. I support the local rule that any property tax increase must be approved by the voters and will remain skeptical and hesitant toward any type of tax in-

crease for our citizens. Further, I pub-licly oppose unnecessary legislation like the so-called “religious freedom” bill, and will work to maintain focus on our most pressing issues like traffic, crime, taxes and education.

My wife and I chose this commu-nity above all others to raise our fam-ily and to give our children a place to call home. I am invested in the future and well-being of this area. As is evi-dent by my already strong history as an engaged citizen, I am, and will remain, steadfast in my passion and dedication to protect and improve our neighbor-hoods.

Q: What do you see as the biggest prob-lem facing the state?A: The biggest problem facing our state is unnecessary legislation, like this past year’s so-called “religious free-dom” (“RFRA”) bill. We need to cut back on legislation attempting to serve as a solution to a problem created only by the legislation. I strongly support Gov. Deal’s veto of RFRA, and did so publi-cally before the veto. If it had not been for the governor’s veto, Georgia’s repu-tation, both nationally and internation-ally, as a welcoming and gracious state would have been damaged, and the eco-nomic detriment to our state would have been immense. One only needs to look at what has occurred in North Car-olina and Indiana, when similar legis-lation was enacted, to see what could have befallen on Georgia economically.

Q: If a “religious freedom” bill similar to the one passed this session and ve-toed by Gov. Deal is offered again next year, how would you vote on it?A: I would vote against it. Please see my response regarding legislation like this amounting to the biggest problem fac-ing our state.

My position against the so-called

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“religious freedom” (“RFRA”) bill is un-qualified and not just a strategic po-litical stance. My family and I attend Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church and my opposition stems from my person-al beliefs.

Deborah Donald-son SilcoxAttorney

Neighborhood: Northside Woods

Past political experience: University of Georgia leg-islative intern for the 1985 session; legislative intern for U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn in the summer of 1984; clerked for Georgia’s At-torney General Michael Bowers in the summer of 1987; have worked on numerous campaigns.

Other experience in the communi-ty: Reappointed and made chair of the Governor’s Commission for Service and Volunteerism by Gov. Nathan Deal (2014-present); appointed by Gov. Son-ny Perdue to state of Georgia’s Com-mission for Volunteerism and Service (2011- 2014) as well as the Department of Human Resources Board (2009-2011); Chastain Park Conservancy (ex-ecutive committee and board mem-ber 2008-2015); advisory board of the Chastain Park Conservancy (2015-pres-ent); Hands on Georgia board member (2004-2008); Junior League of Atlan-ta (past vice president of Finance and board member).

Q: Why should the voters choose you? A: I can serve in this position full time. I have raised my family and have no competing business. I also have very

clear goals in mind to bring change to Fulton County and Georgia, including exempting senior citizens from school taxes similar to how Cobb County al-ready does, bringing property tax relief

for all Fulton homeowners by raising the homestead exemption, and eliminat-ing the Georgia income tax and replacing it with a FairTax plan. Most impor-tantly, I am tenacious and will finish the job I start-ed: I do not quit.

Q: What do you see as the biggest problem facing the state? A: As our representative, I will work to ensure we have long-term econom-ic development plans in place to bring jobs and

growth here. My proposal to eliminate income taxes and replace them with a FairTax plan would absolutely result in economic development from compa-nies relocating out of high-tax states to Georgia and bringing growth, manufac-turing and high-tech jobs with them.

Q: If a “religious freedom” bill similar to the one passed this session and ve-toed by Gov. Deal is offered again next year, how would you vote on it? A: Reasonable people can disagree on his issue, but I believe that the language of House Bill 757 would not withstand a judicial challenge. Arguably, the lan-guage of the bill violates the Equal Pro-tection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If another bill is proposed next year, I would be interest-ed in finding language in the bill that protects Georgians’ freedom of religion but does not discriminate against any-one.

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A bus tour moves ideas about Buford Highway’s futureing out families” with “million-dollar town-homes.”

Meanwhile, Brookhaven City Council member Joe Gebbia revealed that he wants the city to buy Buford Highway property to ensure redevelopment includes affordable housing and local businesses. City-owned redevelopments, Gebbia said, may be the only way “to serve the community and not just maximize the profit.”

Similar food for thought was served alongside food for the belly on the bus tour. While noshing on sample plates, attendees heard from such officials as MARTA plan-ner Amanda Rhein, who set up an easel at the Plaza Fiesta mall and explained the agency’s proposed transit-oriented redevel-opment around the Brookhaven/Ogletho-rpe station.

The bus crawl ended at Brookhav-en’s Royal Lounge nightclub with keynote speaker Ryan Gravel, the urban planner who dreamed up Atlanta’s BeltLine park/transit ring.

“There’s certainly the challenge of change and displacing the thing that makes [Buford Highway] special,” Gravel said in an interview at the lounge about the corridor’s immigrant culture. “Nowhere else has that sense of identity, that sense of place…There’s nothing else like it” in metro Atlanta or most other suburban corridors nationwide, he said. “What happens to it is really important.”

Without a new kind of culture-focused planning, Gravel said, the road’s main asset will be displaced for another generic strip-mall suburb. He suggested turning two lanes of the roadway into bus-rapid-tran-sit lanes. Instead of pumping money into standard redevelopments, he called for in-vesting in affordable housing or “a venture capital fund for immigrant businesses.”

Gentrification tensionsBringing busloads of mostly white, non-

Hispanic cultural tourists to Buford High-way was a tricky part of the bus crawl’s own

displacement discussions, and sparked some local curiosity. As one group walked through the Plaza Fiesta parking lot, a pass-erby cracked, “Did y’all’s bus break down? That’s a lot of white people.”

Julio Penaranda, the property manager at Plaza Fiesta, said that Brookhaven city policies are displacing the mall’s Latino customer base, even as it adapts to serve a new, upper-middle-class “white Anglo” de-mographic.

“Brookhaven has been, hands-down, anti-low-income, anti-Latino, anti-immi-grants since Day One,” said Penaranda, pointing to the city’s approval of luxury housing in place of apartments, and its li-censing crackdowns on local restaurants and nightclubs. He contrasted Brookhaven with the city of Chamblee, which he char-acterized as more supportive.

Penaranda said Plaza Fiesta’s mall has changed with local demographics over the years, starting as a Woolworth’s depart-ment store in the 1950s, shifting to Asian businesses in the 1970s, and then a Latino mall in 1998. Now it’s making sure its re-tailers welcome the new demographic by accepting credit cards, using bilingual sig-nage and showing “that it’s not scary to come into a place that is mostly Hispanic.”

MARTA Army founder Simon Berrebi said bus crawl organizers tried to not pres-ent Buford as exotic, but instead to high-light the good and the challenging. “That’s how people who live and work here live it every day,” he reminded the nightclub crowd.

“It’s not just, ‘Let’s go eat.’ It’s, ‘Let’s go eat and learn,’” said We Love BuHi found-er Marian Liou.

Why they love BuHiMany attendees did just that, enjoying

exploring Buford and trying out MARTA’s 39 bus. Katie Lambert of Atlanta and Lin-da Niederhausen of Marietta teamed up to join one of several groups led from stop to stop by volunteer guides.

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Chamblee residents Katja and Joerg Lauterbach said they’ve been on We Love BuHi’s previous Buford bike tours.

“We just love Buford Highway…We are adventurers, but [we attend] to be more ad-venturous,” Katja Lauterbach said, adding that as immigrants themselves—from Ber-lin, Germany—they appreciate the corri-dor and its people.

At Yen Jing, a Chinese restaurant in Doraville, a dumpling-munching crowd heard about the work of the Center for Pan Asian Community Services from its vice president, Victoria Huynh. Sally Flocks of the Atlanta pedestrian advocacy group PEDS explained Buford Highway’s traf-

fic dangers outside the Bangladeshi mar-ket and café Bismillah, where there’s a dirt path instead of a sidewalk.

The star of the tour was Gravel, who grew up in Chamblee and whose 1999 grad student project of turning old railroad beds into the BeltLine is transforming Atlanta—currently as a multiuse path, but with a strong push for his original light-rail pub-lic transit vision.

Grassroots challengesGravel signed a copy of his new book,

“Where We Want to Live,” for Rebekah Morris, a teacher at Brookhaven’s Cross Keys High, while she told him about her students’ project to design their own Bu-ford Highway visions. That student project is partly a response to a lack of Buford com-munity input in local plans, partly due to language or cultural barriers.

Grassroots input is a big theme of Grav-el’s book, he said in an interview. For the BeltLine plan, he said, Atlanta’s Neighbor-hood Planning Unit system was crucial for getting quick and easy community input from everywhere in the city. He said he is not an expert in Buford-area local govern-ments, but that they appear not to have anything like NPUs.

Brookhaven created a plan for its sec-tion of Buford Highway in 2014 that is con-troversial, Liou and others say, for suggest-ing a renaming to “Buford Boulevard” and only lightly addressing diversity with such

ideas as a globe sculpture. The published plan included public comments from only nine people.

Local input from the diverse commu-nity is “an uphill climb for everybody,” said David Schaefer, the director of poli-cy and advocacy at the Latin American As-sociation, which is based on Brookhaven’s stretch of Buford Highway.

Language barriers, meetings not acces-sible by public transit, immigrants from places without traditions of public input, the daily struggles of poverty—all of those and more are among the obstacles, Schae-fer said. And with immigrants from dozens of countries, the Buford corridor’s commu-nity is not a “monolith” with an easy repre-sentative to contact, he said.

“I think there’s deeper relationship-building that both sides need to engage in,” Schaefer said of city-community rela-

tions. He added that Brookhav-en is generally responsive, but “sometimes market forces are bigger than any of us.” State-level affordable housing poli-cy may be the real solution, he said. “Sometimes the law fol-lows the culture,” he said.

Rethinking re-development

Gravel made a similar point about broadening the definition of urban planning. With metro Atlanta’s popula-tion booming and local gov-ernments doing cleanup proj-ects like the Peachtree Creek

Greenway and shutting down strip clubs, change is coming to Buford Highway, Grav-el said. With a “thoughtful” approach, it can change in ways that build wealth for the existing community, he said.

“Buford Highway has to be a corridor not just for moving people in cars along,” but also for community development, health and the arts, Gravel said. “All of those things are part of what its job is.”

Gebbia, who represents the area, praised Liou and Morris as leaders raising some of those new ways of thinking. He said it has helped inspire him to work for more for-mal, regional planning on public transit and marketing efforts such as an “interna-tional festival” on the entire corridor.

Gebbia’s biggest idea is using a potential new city agency to “take control of [a] proj-ect…assemble the land…then dictate the outcome to bidders.” One or more city-de-veloped projects could retain Buford High-way’s workforce housing and multicultur-al businesses, he said, adding that the idea is under city internal review.

But time may not be on the side of new-fangled development ideas. Gebbia said he has talked with the Latin American Associ-ation about a “contingency plan” in case a major apartment complex was bought out and its hundreds of residents are sudden-ly displaced.

“Right now, there is no answer,” Gebbia said. “They’re all just ideas right now.”

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Ryan Gravel, left, signs his book for Cross Keys High School teacher Rebekah Morris

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Dining OutMegan Volpert Megan Volpert lives in Decatur, teaches in Ro-swell and writes books about popular culture.

In the April edition of Atlanta Maga-zine, Corby Kummer gave four stars to Sta-plehouse—the first four-star rating giv-en by that magazine since 2010. Within the same 24 hours as that incredible re-view, news also broke that Staplehouse is a James Beard Finalist for Best New Restau-rant.

After I ate there, I immediately posted on social media: “Don’t wait for my review, ATLiens, get tickets to eat at Staplehouse now, before they’re the hardest table to get in this city. I’m not a sentimental person, so when I say you won’t regret it…” and then posted a photo of the slogan painted over their kitchen. It’s a quotation from Ryan Hidinger that reads, “Anything long last-ing or worthwhile takes time and complete surrender.”

Everyone knows the late Hidinger’s story by now. In short, he was a talented chef with plans to open a restau-rant, but instead he died af-ter the industry raised quite a lot of money to aggressive-ly but unsuccessfully treat his gallblad-der cancer. What remains is the small but fiercely determined clan of his wife, Jen; his sister, Kara; and Kara’s husband, Chef Ryan Smith. What remains is The Giving Kitch-en, a means of raising charitable funds for members of the industry who are in need of help with expensive medical bills. All of the after-tax profits from Staplehouse go to The Giving Kitchen.

So to begin with, this is an easy way to give back to the chefs and servers who liter-ally put food on your table. And it is incred-ible food. I have had the pleasure of experi-encing the majority of fine dining offerings in Atlanta, and without hyperbole of any kind, I want to state unequivocally that I have never been so impressed with a meal in our fair city as I was with the one at Sta-plehouse. Kummer said it’s a meal worth a plane ticket and I agree.

There are many dishes worthy of anal-ysis, but little point in detailing them be-cause you should not order them. Staple-house offers an a la carte menu, but you

should get the tickets. Don’t argue with me about the merits of tick-eting; trust Smith to de-liver you an amazing feast that is twice as large as you ex-pect. The tick-ets are for a five-course menu, but there were four surprise courses threaded between those and one

of them had four completely different bites on it. It’s dy-namite bang for your buck. Trust in Smith, whose tastes, techniques and plating will all prove themselves to you as worthy of the ridiculous

amount of praise already bestowed upon them.

This brings me to my only point of dis-agreement with Kummer’s review. He says that the food “is of a seriousness that sug-gests, perhaps even demands, white table-cloths and a hint of formality.” Noooo! I would say instead, “welcome to Atlanta, where the very best chefs have no need of white tablecloths.”

Fine dining establishments in New York or Los Angeles are free to serve you expen-sively boring four-star food, resting as-sured that you can sweep your disillusion-ment under their white tablecloths. That is not how we do it in the South. Not only is Staplehouse free of white tablecloths, it doesn’t even require servers to wear stan-dardized uniforms and it also features – gasp! – an open kitchen floor plan. We are unfussy and we have soul, and we should not make concessions or apologize for it.

One other thing: we like to drink in the South. The long line of glowing Staple-house reviews often neglects to mention its

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Local police departments training public on active shooter eventsBY DYANA [email protected]

The class began with the Pledge of Alle-giance. Then, Dunwoody Police Department’s Lt. Mike Carlson asked the crowd, “Why do you think you are here tonight?”

A woman from the audience volunteered, “To learn how to react when there’s an active shooter.”

“I couldn’t think of a better response,” Carlson said. “Give her a round of applause.” The audience did just that.

Carlson was teaching a recent Civilian Re-action to an Active Shooter Event (C.R.A.S.E.) at the Dunwoody United Methodist Church, one of several Dunwoody police have put on in the past couple of years.

A crowd of nearly 100 people sat in fold-ing chairs in the Fellowship Hall listening to Carlson’s presentation, part of a growing number of people in metro Atlanta seeking answers for what to do if they somehow are caught in the middle of a shooting.

In addition to Dunwoody, police depart-ments in Sandy Springs, Brookhaven and At-lanta also have offered such classes, all free and open to the public, as news of “active shooters” continue to make national head-lines. An active shooter as defined by the FBI is “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.”

The Sandy Springs Police Depart-ment has offered three C.R.A.S.E. seminars to the public so far this year, and also 11 private classes, said Sgt. Forrest Bohannon. “We have a lot of private requests. We do lock-down drills at schools. Schools have different policies than what we teach with C.R.A.S.E. Some of the princi-ples are the same, but some are not because of the younger children,” Bo-hannon said. “Some of the classes we have done are for medical offices, business offices, private school par-ents, citizen police academy.”

The Brookhaven Police Depart-ment will be scheduling more class-es after the summer and the APD has held several successful classes this year.

Carlson told the Dunwoody crowd that there have been 160 “ac-tive shooter incidents” in the U.S. from 2000 through 2013. ► That’s an average of 11.4 incidents per year. However, since 2006, that number has jumped to 16.4 incidents per year.

► There were 486 people killed in these in-cidents and 557 wounded.

► 70 percent of the incidents occurred in either a business/commerce or school envi-

ronment.

► 60 percent of the incidents ended before police arrived.

Avoiding ‘normalcy bias’Columbine High School, Sandy Hook El-

ementary School, last year’s San Bernandi-no attack – these are all well-known active shooter events, Carlson said.

Carlson played a recording of Columbine teacher Patty Nielson calling 911 from the li-brary as students Dylan Klebold and Eric Har-ris could be heard in the hallway shooting.

“Just stay down!” she shouts at students. Audible gasps could be heard from the crowd listening to the tape.

A video re-enactment of the shooting, with actors portraying Klebold and Harris as well as injured and terrified students, is then played for the crowd. More gasps from those watching could be heard.

Carlson said most people have a “normal-cy bias” and don’t believe anything bad, such as being in the midst of an active shooter sit-uation, could happen to them. Classes such as this are meant to jar people into realizing

they need to get out of that bias toward normalcy.

The number of deaths at an active shooter event depends on how fast police arrive and the “target availability” – how easy people are for the shooter to actual-ly kill.

It takes police an average of three min-utes to respond to an active shooter event, which is like an “eternity” for those at the scene trying to survive, Carlson said. The best way to save lives is to teach civilians how to respond themselves, he said.

Playing dead doesn’t work, he said. Nor does hiding behind desks, he said, because desks aren’t bulletproof. “Those are two bad strategies,” Carlson said.

Instead, people are urged to “avoid, deny, defend,” he explained.

Avoid: Make sure you have “situation-al awareness” when walking into a room. Know where all the exits are and consid-er secondary exits, such as windows. This gives options to escape.Deny: If in a school or office building,

close the door to your office or room and use a belt or other strap to lock up the handle so the shooter cannot enter. Also, barricade the room shut by pushing desks and other furni-ture in front of the door so the shooter cannot open the door.

Defend: If all else fails, be ready at the doorway for the shooter to come and sur-prise the shooter by positioning yourself to attack and take the gun away. “It’s you or them,” Carlson said. “Remember, you are not helpless. What you do matters.”

Barbara Pryor attended the presentation with her husband, Jay Pryor.

“I feel it is of utmost importance for every-one to be aware … to practice in your mind this situation,” she said. “It is especially im-portant for schools and for teachers, because it will all come as a shock and surprise when and if it happens.”

“Unfortunately this is something we all need to know about these days,” he said. “You want to be prepared. The takeaway I have is … don’t deny what’s going on. If it sounds like gunshots, act like it is gunshots. And if you think you need the police, call the police.”

DYANA BAGBY

Lt. Mike Carlson of the Dunwoody Police Department addresses a crowd attending a recent Civilian Reaction to Active Shooter Event (C.R.A.S.E.)

at Dunwoody United Methodist Church.

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Police Blotter / BuckheadFrom police reports dated be-tween April 17 and April 30

The following information was provided to the Buckhead Reporter by the Zone 2 Precinct of the Atlanta Police Department and is presumed to

be accurate.

ROBBERY � 800 block of Amsterdam Ave. NE –

On April 23, during the day, a woman said she was stretching before taking a run and saw a black SUV parked near-by. Three men got out of the vehicle, she said, and began walking down the side-walk toward her. All the men were wear-ing dark clothing and face masks. They pointed a black-and-gray gun at her chest and demanded she give up everything she had. They forced her to lie down on the ground. Items taken were a Garmin running watch, Fitbit, iPod shuffle and Timex GPS watch.

� 1400 block of Ellsworth Industrial Blvd. NW – On April 24, in the evening, a man said he and his nephew picked up a client and dropped him off at a near-by recording studio. They said the cli-ent went into the location and then re-turned with several other men. The men began asking about the disappearance of a smoking pen that had been in the ve-hicle. The man and his nephew said they had not seen a smoking pen. The group of men then began striking the man, and he fled the location. He said the sus-pects attempted to shoot him but the gun jammed. Two iPhone 6Ss, an iPhone 5S and an LG smartphone were taken from the vehicle.

� 3600 block of Peachtree Rd. NE – On the morning of April 30, a man said he took an Uber from a bar, but the driver wasn’t sure where to go. The Uber driv-er said he dropped the man off at a gas station and the man said he then called for another Uber. A female in a car pulled up to him and he asked her if she was his driver. She said yes and then asked for his money. The man told her no, but she be-gan grabbing his money and credit cards and then fled the scene.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT � 1900 block of Piedmont Cir. NE – On

April 29, during the day, an officer went to a hotel and discovered a man bleed-ing from several punctures over his body. The victim said he had been stabbed in the head, back and shoulders. The victim said he was stabbed after he was accused of stealing marijuana from two men.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY � 3500 block of Rockhaven Cir. NE – On

April 17, during the day, police received a report of a burglary at a house. No force

was needed to enter the house because the door was left unlocked. Surveillance footage shows a man enter the house through the rear door. He then removed a range from the countertop and left. The suspect was observed departing in a sil-ver sedan. The surveillance footage of the inci-dent was collected as evidence. Fin-gerprints were retrieved from the countertop and turned in for pro-cessing.

� 2000 block of Hollywood Rd. NW – On April 19, in the evening, the rear door of a house was forced open by damaging a door lock. Three flat-screen TVs were taken.

� 2100 block of Forrest Pl. NW – On April 20, in the evening, a woman said she re-ceived notification from her alarm com-pany that there was activity detected to the master bedroom and front door. The rear bedroom window was discovered forced open. The home was cleared and no suspects were found inside. An iPad mini, HP laptop, Samsung TV and Tumi tote bag were removed from the location. Possible tracking located on the iPad.

� 1400 block of Mecaslin St. NW – On April 21, during the day, a man told police he was ordered by a judge to be out of the apartment on April 28. He said that when he returned from court, he found that his apartment had been entered and all of his belonging removed. Taken were two 65-inch Samsung flat screen TVs, Gate-way laptop, Xbox 360, PS4, Nike shoes, Comelera medication, and Stribuild med-ication.

� 4000 block of Peachtree Park Dr. NE – On April 22, during the day, a woman said she saw a man inside her sun room patio. She said she screamed and that the man fled. A screen had been removed from the porch window, which is how the suspect gained entry. Nothing was taken.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY � 700 block of Morosgo Dr. NE – On April

24, in the evening, there was forced entry to the front door to an apartment and damage to the door viewer. The resident told police his camera alarm system was activated and showed footage of three men entering the location and stealing items. The resident said that after forc-ing the door they made entry three times. Two Fossil watches, an Apple cable rout-

er, a Mac minicomputer, an Apple Thun-derbolt monitor, an Apple time capsule, a Fuji film camera, a MacBook Pro and headphones were taken from the loca-tion.

� 1400 block of W. Paces Ferry Rd. NW – On April 25, a woman told police she

returned to her apartment and found her screen pulled off and

her window open. A Vizio TV, Acer laptop, iPad, guitar, mini fridge, two motorcy-cle helmets, gold necklace, silver earrings, passport, Xbox, leather suit, leath-er jacket and a motorcycle

jacket were taken.

� 1000 block of Huff Rd. NW – On April 26, during the

day, the dead bolt to an apartment was pried from the door. The apartment showed signs of rummaging and dis-turbed from original positions. A safe containing $850 cash was taken.

� 2600 block of Forrest Ave. NW – On April 27, in the eve-

ning, officers were dispatched to an audi-ble alarm at a house. A rear window had been shattered. A 42-inch Vizio, two flat screen TVs, two iPads and a Toshiba lap-top were taken.

� 2200 block of Forrest Pl. NW – On April 29, during the day, the side door of a house was found pried open. Two Insig-nia flat screen TVs were stolen.

� 400 block of Peachtree Hills Ave. NE – On April 29, during the day, the side win-dow of an apartment was found broken open. Taken were a LG tablet, a Zenith TV and $600 in cash.

� 400 block of Lindbergh Dr. NE – On April 29, during the day, a woman told police she noticed movement coming from a bedroom in her home. She said she walked into the room to see what had caused the disturbance. She said she saw a man searching through her son’s nightstand. Upon seeing her, the suspect jumped back out the window and fled the scene.

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