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Bird in handScouts contribute colorful

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Luke Smith, 4, helps clean up a tributary of Nancy creek on the former emory Shallowford Hospital site

april 27. Smith was part of a volunteer effort led by city employees. more photos on page 6.

By Joe [email protected]

DeKalb County school officials are considering a propos-al to allow administrators at individual high schools to seek accreditation for the school from a state agency.

Board of Education member John Coleman, who lives in Brookhaven, said he and fellow board members will consider May 6 whether to allow DeKalb high schools to pursue state accreditation as individual schools.

“We want to make sure we’re enabling that process,” Coleman said. “[We’re tyring] to help that process along to protect students and parents.”

Some Dunwoody parents want Dunwoody High School

By Joe [email protected]

A parents’ group has decided against submitting a letter of intent to try to start a charter school cluster in Dunwoody next year.

Instead, leaders of Dunwoody Parents Concerned About Quality Education said they will help create a new, separate organization to pursue creating a charter school cluster.

The parents’ group, also known as Concerned Parents of Dunwoody, had discussed submitting the letter of intent to county and state officials by the deadline to request a char-ter cluster.

But organizers of Concerned Parents, a nonprofit organi-zation created to work to improve the community’s schools, told about 50 people attending the group’s April 28 meet-

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project May 13A divided Dunwoody City Council

deferred until May 13 its consideration of a pair of land development waivers for a 90-bed assisted living facility on Wom-ack Road.

Several council members said they supported the Berman Commons devel-opment. But after some council mem-bers said they had unanswered questions about the project and others worried that neighbors had not had sufficient notice of the discussion of the project, the coun-cil voted 4-3 on April 22 to defer the vote until the May council meeting.

Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch and Councilmen John Heneghan, Denis Shortal and Doug Thompson voted to delay the vote. Councilwoman Adri-an Bonser, Councilman Terry Nall and Mayor Mike Davis voted against the de-lay.

Zoning for the project initially was ap-proved by DeKalb County officials before Dunwoody became a city, lawyer Doug Dillard told the council. Dunwoody’s re-quirements meant that setbacks required by DeKalb would prevent the construc-tion of about 20 parking places, Dillard said.

To avoid the problem, the developers agreed to grant the city an easement to

build bicycle lanes on the Berman Com-mons’ property rather than give the city the land, Dillard said. “This is a good compromise,” he said.

Officials pick charter commission

Dunwoody city officials have named five members to a special commission to review the city’s charter.

Dunwoody City Council on April 22 approved the formation of the Charter Commission, which will review the city’s charter and recommend to the state Leg-islature any improvements members feel are needed. The commission is to com-plete its work by Oct. 1.

Members of the new commission were chosen by City Council, Mayor Mike Davis and state lawmakers who repre-sent Dunwoody. The members of the commission are: Mallard Holliday, who was appointed by the mayor; former City Councilman Robert Wittenstein, who was appointed by the council; Beverly Wingate, appointed by Sen. Fran Millar (R-Dunwoody); Rick Otness, appointed by Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody); and Max Lehmann, appointed by Rep. Mike Jacobs (R-Brookhaven).

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By tom oderThe Girl Scouts

in Troop 29430 at Our Lady of the As-sumption Elemen-tary School have earned a flock of new friends, feathered and unfeathered, with a birdhouse service project they under-took on behalf of the Dunwoody Commu-nity Garden.

The girls, most-ly from Brookhav-en, and friends since they were Dai-sy Scouts, decorated 12 birdhouses dur-ing a meeting earlier this month. Last Sat-urday, as one of the girl’s moms played the sound of a bird singing from a cell-phone app, nine girls from the troop presented the birdhous-es to Community Garden leaders at the garden in Brook Run Park.

The girls made the presentation at a birdbath in the orchid entrance to the garden. A sign in front of the birdbath designating the garden as a wildlife sanc-tuary registered with the Atlanta Audu-bon Society attested to the timeliness of the project and presentation. The gar-den was awarded the certification earli-er this year.

“This is just what I like to see, youth contribution and artwork,” said Com-munity Garden Chairman Nicole Maslanka. “This is a combination that really enlivens the spirit of a Communi-ty Garden.”

Scouts participating in the presen-tation at the garden were Abby John-son, Bella Cabibi, Lauren Kim, Frances-ca Walker, Katie Wojna, Lauren Natsch, Ava Massey, Tegan Siksta and Hallye Loeffler. Maslanka and Garden Vice Chairman Art Simon, who led the ef-fort to win the Audubon certification, accepted the birdhouses on behalf of the garden.

The scouts got the idea for the bird-house project when they were working on another Community Garden proj-ect last year. That effort involved clean-ing pots and tidying up the area around the greenhouse in the park. During that project, Diana Wood, who was manag-ing the Community Garden portion of the greenhouse, gave the girls some bird-houses to paint to help beautify the gar-den. The girls decided to turn that gift into a second Community Garden ser-vice project.

The troop purchased several more birdhouses and spent an afternoon painting and decorating them. When parents arrived to pick up their daugh-

ters, “the girls were having so much fun they wanted to keep on working and keep adding more details,” said Mary Natsch, a mom of one of the scouts.

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ing at Dunwoody United Methodist Church that they couldn’t get agreement on the plan from representatives of all Dunwoody’s schools, so they decided to wait.

“It was impractical to try to do it at the speed we were trying to do it,” Concerned Parents organizer Robert Wittenstein said. “This is a more sane approach.”

Concerned Parents’ leaders said they will help organize the new group to ad-dress the charter cluster effort.

“What we’re trying to do is set the lanes up for people to get into,” Con-cerned Parents chairwoman Allegra Johnson said. “From that, the charter school committee will come. We’re just trying to start the wheels turning, say-ing, ‘We’ve got to do it now.’”

The new group should include rep-resentatives from all of Dunwoody’s schools, Wittenstein said. “We’re go-ing to try get it started … but we will not be in charge,” he said. “It has to be done by folks who are put in charge by the schools.”

The earliest the new group could submit a request for a charter cluster would be in February 2014, Witten-stein said.

Individual charter schools and char-ter school systems have existed for years in Georgia, but a charter school clus-ter is a relatively new concept. Char-ter schools and systems typically are turned over to local control and freed from some state or county regulations in hopes of fostering innovation. In re-turn, the charter schools or systems are required to show academic improve-ment.

A charter cluster would create lo-cal governance for all the schools in a

group clustered around a particular high school, such as Dunwoody High School.

Wittenstein said creating a charter cluster in Dunwoody would have giv-en the city schools “a measure of inde-pendence” within the DeKalb Coun-ty school system as elected officials and residents pursue legislative efforts to create a separate city school system.

Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody) has introduced legislation to allow cit-ies such as Dunwoody that have been created since 2005 to create their own school systems or to combine with other new or adjacent cities to set up school systems.

The Concerned Parents group has commissioned a feasibility study to determine whether Dunwoody could support its own system and to look at how a Dunwoody system would af-fect DeKalb schools, Wittenstein said. The group planned to contract with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and a Georgia Tech professor to conduct the study, he said.

“Frankly, guys, we shouldn’t hold our breath on feasibility. It should be evident to everybody a community like Dunwoody would have the wherewith-al to support a school system,” Witten-stein said.

The study also will look at the effect the creation of a Dunwoody school sys-tem could have on the remainder of the DeKalb county system. Dunwoody’s system could take in about 7,000 stu-dents and about 7 percent of the prop-erty owners paying taxes toward the system, he said.

“If we take our students out and we take our money out, that will have a negative impact on DeKalb,” he said, “and we want to quantify that.”

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parent group’s chair discusses reasons for ‘charter clusters’Charter schools, individual public

schools operated by local groups, have ex-isted in Georgia for years, but a “charter cluster” -– made up of all the schools clus-tered around a particular high school -– is a relatively new concept in the state.

The charter cluster idea is proving popular in DeKalb County. Proposals for charter clusters have been discussed by parents of students in sev-eral areas of the county, in-cluding Dunwoody.

Allegra Johnson chairs the Dunwoody Parents Con-cerned About Quality Educa-tion, a new volunteer group working to improve Dun-woody’s schools. The organi-zation is supporting legislative efforts to create a separate city school sys-tem in Dunwoody and community efforts to create a charter cluster of the schools in the city. The Dunwoody Reporter asked Johnson to discuss how a charter cluster might work.

Q. How would a “charter school cluster” work, and what

would be the advantage of creating one in Dunwoody or Brookhaven?

a. A high school charter cluster -- a seamless K-12, top-down

high school cluster with a middle school and elementary school following in line -- brings a feeder pattern together to im-prove the overall education of a student starting in elementary school, continuing to middle school, and ultimately receiving a high school diploma. It specifies the goals of each school in that specific feeder pattern.

The objective is the same -- graduate from an outstanding high school -- which only becomes that way if students are properly prepared before they get there. The advantage would be that it is the same conversation we need to have if we become our own school system.

Q. How would a “charter clus-ter” be different from an indi-

vidual charter school or a group of charter schools in the same city?

a. Instead of acting individually and only concentrating on one

school, we come together and concentrate on all students being properly educated at every level -- elementary, middle and high school.

Q. Several schools in Dunwoody already are charter schools.

What would being part of a charter cluster mean for existing charter schools?

a. Pieces of their petitions would become part of the cluster peti-

tion. A conversion charter cluster is not

asking any school to give up what they have; instead, it is a process of improving a system that may already be in existence, but also acknowledging that there are

some processes that need to be reworked and some inno-vative programs in existence that may be beneficial to cer-tain students in the feeder pattern.

Q. Wouldn’t the schools in a “char-

ter cluster” be financed through the DeKalb Coun-ty school system? So, couldn’t schools in the clus-ter still face conflicts with the district over teacher pay and other financial issues?

a. Yes, a conversion charter is fi-nanced by DeKalb County, but

the way a petition is written specifies what that cluster would like to have more con-trol over. A petition not only covers cur-riculum and human resources, it also cov-ers other areas, i.e., food service, safety and transportation. However, a petition can be written to show how we would serve our students in the DHS cluster.

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City Currents articles are prepared by the city of Dunwoody and published each month by the Dunwoody Reporter as a community service. They are intended to offer insight into the workings of Dunwoody city government. This installment focuses on the city’s Public Works Department.

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Infrastructure insights – congestion relief From the beginning of Dunwoody’s

incorporation more than four years ago, the city’s roads, traffic signals and inter-sections have remained top concerns for the community.

Over the last six months the city’s public works department has been in-volved in a number of important initia-tives to improve traffic flow throughout the area. The maintenance and upkeep of these roads, signals and sidewalks is essential in addressing traffic congestion relief as well as for the safety and quali-ty of life of those who live, work or pass through the city of Dunwoody.

Most recently, the city has been hard at work examining traffic flow and opti-mization of the city’s 57 traffic signals. To get the ball (or cars) moving forward, the city, along with the Perimeter CID and adjacent local governments, helped create the Perimeter Traffic Operations Program (PTOP) which provides active manage-ment of 26 Dunwoody signals in the Perimeter business district.

In less than a year, the program has had a real ef-fect on safety and signal timing improvements at multiple intersections. For example, the program has improved the percentage of functioning vehicle detection devices at signals from 84 percent at the start of the program to 95 percent today. That translates to more efficient cycling of the traffic signal and less driver frustration.

In addition to improvements in the Perimeter area, Dunwoody also recent-ly received assistance from another state signal timing program to retime sig-nals on Mount Vernon Road, Cham-blee Dunwoody Road, North Peachtree Road and Tilly Mill Road.

Travel times and traffic delay were measured prior to and after the new timing was implemented and notable improvements were realized. Primarily, there’s been an overall reduction in trav-el time and delay at intersections. We’ve

been able to deliver a 30 percent reduc-tions in mid-day travel time on North Shallowford, Chamblee Dunwoody and North Peachtree roads; a 30 percent re-duction in evening rush-hour travel time on North Shallowford Road, re-

sulting in reduction of more than 1 minute in travel time on the cor-ridor; a 10 percent re-duction in travel time for morning and after-noon rush-hour traf-fic on Chamblee Dun-woody Road; and a 20

percent decrease in travel time on Tilly Mill Road throughout the day.

These results demonstrate the success of the retiming efforts in providing sig-nificant improvements at very little cost to the city.

The city is also hard at work to best address common roadway and infra-structure improvements. This is where residents can help the city efficiently identify and resolve issues.

We ask residents for help in identi-fying and reporting potholes or traffic safety issues through our automated on-line web application and reporting sys-tem: SeeClickFix.com. These free tools are also available in a mobile applica-tion for smartphones and other devices via our website (www.dunwoodyga.gov/Residents/SeeClickFix.aspx).

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Q: Did the bombings in Boston change the way you think about

attending large outdoor community events?

“i probably would be more cautious, depending on what city i’m in, if it’s New york or Boston or atlanta at the peachtree race this year.”

Bob Clinard

“No, statistically, it’s a chance you take. i could get hit by a bus, or have a heart attack or a stroke. i’m not going to stop

my life for it.”

Karen Davenport

“No, it hasn’t, actually. i’m more like, ‘the hell with you.

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Angie Whittle

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During the recent terrorist attack in Boston, I was following the developments with concern as they unfolded on live tele-vision, as was most of America. The questions and the eventu-al hunt for those responsible dominated the 24/7 news cycle of the major cable news channels. Unfortunately, much of the in-formation being pushed out was conjecture and speculation, sprinkled with outright untruths and false information.

In addition, there seemed to be information overload. Fortunately, the Boston Police Department utilizes social

media to communicate with its citizens. In this case, the de-partment’s Twitter channel became the go-to source for accu-rate and timely information.

Law enforcement began using social media several years ago, and today that use has skyrocketed. Agencies, both large and small, recognize the value of using social media to communi-cate with its citizens, promote their department, create a two- way dialogue, bypass the media filter, and disseminate timely information in the event of a real-time crisis.

Of course, most of the information disseminated by police agencies about real-time events is not as critical as the Boston bombing, nor do the routine events garner such na-tional attention. Nonetheless, the information about these local events is still of value to the community.

The Dunwoody Police Department began using social media the day we began opera-tions as a police department on April 1, 2009. Since that first day, our use of social media has expanded, and our engagement with the community using social media has increased tremendously. On a daily basis, we push out information about real-time events such as traffic accidents, road closures, suspects we may be searching for and other information which may affect our community or where the community could assist our department.

Currently, the Dunwoody Police Department is a leader in a police department’s use of social media. We have 2,700 likes on Facebook, 74 subscribers on YouTube and 4,634 followers on Twitter. We also use the social media platform “Interactive Defense” to con-nect about 1,800 citizens within our neighborhoods.

In the Boston bombing case, the Boston Police Department, through their Twitter ac-count @Boston_Police, provided timely updates throughout the developing investigation and manhunt after the bombing.

Two posts on Twitter stand out as excellent. The first was after CNN and other news channels erroneously reported the arrest of a suspect. A tweet from the Boston Police read as follows: “Despite reports to the contrary, there has not been an arrest in the marathon attack.”

The second post was made during the intensive manhunt. The media was every-where filming the police, and the following tweet was sent by the Boston Police: “#Medi-aAlert: WARNING: Do not compromise officer safety by broadcasting tactical positions of homes being searched.” This tweet was re-tweeted over 20,000 times. The Boston Po-lice Department’s Twitter followers increased from about 40,000 to over 317,000 during this crisis.

Of course, this was not the first incident where social media was used by law enforce-ment in a crisis of great magnitude. In 2010, the Vancouver Police Department created a Facebook page to help identify suspects in the Olympic riot. And in 2011, the same de-partment created a blog to help identify the Stanley Cup rioters. However, the media cov-erage and scrutiny of these incidents paled in comparison to the Boston bombing.

Fortunately, events such as the Boston Marathon bombing are extremely rare. Unfor-tunately, the thirst for information exhibited by both the media and the public is far too common. In cases like this, where real-time events are unfolding and information may be needed by investigators or safety alerts may need to be provided, the police departments involved are your best and most accurate source of information. The police departments do their level best not to disseminate information unless they know it is accurate. In ad-dition, they try to avoid alarming citizens unnecessarily.

The @Boston_Police department, @FBIBoston and the @MassStatePolice all used so-cial media, particularly Twitter, to inform, solicit information, and to correct false and misleading information.

In fact, the Boston Police Department continues to provide information in the after-math of the Boston Marathon bombing. The department recently tweeted information for those who left their personal property behind when they fled the area of the bombing on how to retrieve their items.

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Allen Ferrell grew up on a ranch in Col-orado, so he knew his way around back-yard vegetable and flower gardens. But af-ter he settled in Georgia back in 2004, he found that when it came to plants, some things had changed.

“Coming from Colorado, the climate is so different,” the 72-year-old Ferrell said. “I found out [that in Georgia], some things you have to take a machete to.”

Like crepe myrtles, those colorful trees that seem to sprout everywhere and that some local gardeners prune nearly to stumps every spring.

Or consider the difference, he said, in growing impatiens. He’d always liked rais-

ing the colorful little flowers. When he lived in Denver, he had to nurture them, replant them every year, fuss over them. Here? They jump out of the ground. “Here, they grow three times the height,” he said. “We were amazed at the beds of impatiens we had.”

Ferrell lives in a Buckhead condo-minium now, so he does much of his gardening through the Buckhead Men’s Garden Club, a 53-year-old organi-zation that claims 35 members and is based at a greenhouse tucked away on the property of the Atlanta History Cen-ter. Ferrell, president of the club, said that back in the 1970s, the group had as many as 140 members. He thinks mem-bership has fallen off because people just don’t have as much time to garden as they used to.

The club has one distinctive feature. “As far as we know, we are the only men’s garden club in Georgia,” he said. “Garden clubs tend to be 95 percent women.”

So why did a men-only garden club sprout in Buckhead? “I honestly don’t know what caused a group of men to band together, other than an interest in gardening,” Ferrell said one recent sun-ny Saturday morning as he sat among the Knock Out roses, asparagus and oth-er plants club members were growing at the greenhouse. He thought a minute more. “And they probably had very little space to propagate plants.”

Not that members don’t garden at home. Member Wheeler Bryan certain-ly does. He’s been tending a patch in the backyard of his Buckhead home for 25-plus years, he said. His wife, Anne, com-

plains that his vegetable gar-den some-times sprawls into her flow-er garden.

Bryan, who says he learned gar-dening when he was grow-ing up in Tif-ton in south Georgia, now grows toma-toes, squash,

eggplants, lots of varieties of peppers and lettuce. He har-vests so much that his children kid him that he’s a truck farm-er. “My two children, who are now grown, learned to count change by running a vegeta-ble stand in the front yard,” he said. “I would make them [spend half the proceeds to] take us out to dinner. We al-ways went to Wendy’s or Burg-er King.”

The Bryans dropped by the men’s club greenhouse on this Saturday morning to see what sort of plants the club was of-

fering during one of its periodic fund-raising sales. Members who garden at the greenhouse must turn over half their crop to the club. Some vegetables are shared to be eaten. Other plants – be-gonias, azaleas – are sold to raise mon-ey to pay club bills. Anne Bryan bought a begonia.

As he waited for customers to arrive, Cal Crutchfield, who’s 64 and works at Clayton State University, nibbled on dried collard leaves.

He’d grown the greens in a small plot next to the greenhouse and cooked them to roughly the consistency of po-tato chips. He grows various greens, cab-bages, lettuce and others. “I grow sor-rel,” he said. “I like to make sorrel and arugula salads because you get the salt and pepper taste from the plants.”

He used to have trouble growing vegetables at home, he said, because his house faces south and his backyard gets too little sun. Now he’s trying some raised beds in his sunny front yard, he said. Still, his cabbages and sorrel are growing alongside the little greenhouse that operates within sight of Buckhead’s high rises. And he enjoys the club’s meetings, where programs range from a talk on lichens to descriptions of gar-dens that have been established any-where from South Carolina to England.

“It’s a good way to get out of the house,” Crutchfield said. “We just have a lot of fun and a lot of camaraderie. A lot of us are older and need to do some-thing different.”

And, of course, find a place in the city to tend to their cabbage crop.

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By AnnE BOAtwRightOn any day of the week, a tall, un-

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Sandy Springs’ resident Trey Miller is the founder and execu-tive director of LifeLine Atlanta, a nonprofit, sober living environment (what used to be called “half-way houses”) for men and women dedicated to long-term success in recovery from chemical addiction.

A former alcoholic and drug addict himself, Mill-er began his organiza-tion with just four beds in 2009. Today, nearly three years later, his small busi-ness has expanded to nine locations and 15 employees in Dunwoody and Doraville. He offers separate facilities for men and women, and constantly has waiting lists.

“I was given a second chance at life and finding a spiritual way of living,” he said.

And that’s not even his “day job.” He’s employed as an IT consultant and web designer.

Starting and suc-cessfully maintaining a niche business in a difficult economy has been no small task. With the help of his business partner Kim Hagler, the di-rector of women’s programs and also a an ex-addict, Miller supervises resident managers and assistants to run the day-to-day operations.

“Working with LifeLine has giv-en me the opportunity to discover how purposeful a life of helping people can truly be,” Hagler said. “It’s changed my perspective on who I am and how much healing power love has when working with addicts on their recovery paths.”

Some clients are transitioning from full-time, inpatient treatment back to their former lives while others, through various experiences, have simply ac-knowledged their inability to control their compulsions and have come for help. All are tasked with making com-plete life changes to get healthy.

The program is based on the guid-ing principles of the Twelve Steps es-tablished in Alcoholics Anonymous, the foundation for all Twelve Step addiction recovery programs. Each home is ful-ly certified by two major accreditation bodies, and Miller and Hagler work to-gether to create a spirit of community to build a peer support network, open communication with families, and even hold special events such as trips to ball games, parties (all alcohol-free of course) and even a graduation.

“Trey and I have been blessed with complementary sets of work, life and

educational experience,” Hagler said. “That has enabled us to run a successful business as a partnership from its con-ception.”

At a time when many similar organizations are struggling financially, Miller’s biggest challenge is lack of space for his bur-geoning business. Miller attributes the growth to numerous factors: family addiction; difficult home environments; hard times; or poor choices in han-dling the stresses of life, such as complicated rela-tionships, career struggles, health problems or finan-

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By StAcy BuBESWhen I was 12, my

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Shortly after my cous-in’s adoption, I became a Bat Mitzvah. Instead of gifts, I asked my guests for contributions to donate to the orphanage. These contributions, which sur-passed $8,000, were des-ignated to replace win-dows. This small effort on my part had an out-standing effect, and drove my desire to continue to help others in similar sit-uations.

As a student at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Sandy Springs, I discovered another way I could make a differ-ence. During my fresh-man year, I was chosen from a group of 31 appli-cants to participate in the “Global Citizenship” pro-gram, a multi-year course that would open our eyes to struggles in other parts of the world and give us an opportunity to help.

Our class consists of discussions around controversial topics in today’s society such as “charity and justice,” “cultural identifiers” and “glo-balization.” The teacher of the course, Quinton Walker, came to Holy Inno-cents’ in 2007 to start the program.

“I want graduates from the program to question the status quo, look for op-portunities to serve, wherever they may be found, and consider the possibili-ty of ‘what can I do to have an impact on the world, both locally and global-ly,’” Walker said. “I want them to ques-tion. Think. Cre-ate. Act. Above all, I want to help students devel-op hearts for the world.”

A large com-ponent of Glob-al Citizenship is how students spend their summers. We are required to perform community service or learn about new cultures, either domestical-ly or internationally. During my soph-omore summer, I attended a program at the University of Michigan. I vol-unteered in areas around Detroit and Ann Arbor, where I found a stunning

amount of poverty. The next summer, I participated in an exchange program at my school and traveled to Argenti-na, where I stayed with an Argentine family. I still keep in contact with the friends I made there.

These class discussions and sum-mer experiences prepare students in the Global Citizenship program for their Senior Capstone Project.

Each student identifies a problem in the world they feel needs to be ad-

dressed. We each think up a social entrepreneurship project to address this need. Once we create our project, we give a presen-tation to a board of about 10 peo-ple who give it a

thumbs up or down. If a project is ap-proved, the student receives $2,500 to start the project.

When I began thinking about my project, I knew that I wanted to help children in orphanages, and specifical-ly those in my cousin’s orphanage in Russia. The difficult part came when I needed to figure out how I could help.

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A family friend introduced me to the Director of Corporate Philanthro-py at Carter’s, a company that makes baby clothes. The director informed me that Carter’s was eager to help and would be able to donate clothes.

I went home and thought about what I could do with Carter’s baby clothes. I decided that I would ask Cart-er’s for white, baby bodysuits and then I would create de-signs to be printed on them. I would sell them and the funds that I gen-erated would go to the orphanage in Russia.

Once Carter’s accepted my re-quest for white, baby bodysuits, I called a few screen printers around Atlanta. I told them about my story and idea, and asked if they would be able to imprint the bodysuits at a reduced cost. West Paces Design Inc. was able to print each bodysuit for $1 and waive all other costs. I also received a reduced cost on printing of tags for the bodysuits.

At home, I brainstormed names for my new company. After much deliber-ation, “Tiny Tees” seemed appropriate. My mom helped me come up with three designs to print on the bodysuits.

I decided to package three bodysuits together in a cellophane bag to make a gift pack. There would be a girl gift pack and a boy gift pack; the designs on the bodysuits would be either pink or blue. I would wrap the packages with either blue or pink raffia.

The last step was to find out who would sell the gift packs. I made ap-pointments at baby stores and gift stores with baby departments. I told the manager or owner of the store my story, and asked if they would join in my efforts to help children in Russian baby houses. I successfully secured four stores: Baby Braithwaite, Fragile Gifts, Gretchen’s Children’s Shop and Kanga-roo Pouch. While all of these stores are located in Sandy Springs or Buckhead, I hope to expand to areas in the future.

After all of this planning, it was time to present my idea to the board. I planned a 15-minute presentation in which I shared my passion, laid out my idea and showed how I would use the $2,500. After two weeks of anticipa-tion, I received the start-up money and Tiny Tees went into action.

Tiny Tees gift packs now are being sold for $24.95 in the four retail stores and promoted through a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/TinyTeesAt-lanta) that I am constantly updating. I am also working on creating a website. I hope that in the future, I can create more Tiny Tees products, such as blan-

kets or bibs. Two other students in the class also

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The other stu-dent traveled to Kenya one sum-mer and noticed that while many citizens there owned a cell-phone, most did not have a place to charge them. She decided to set up solar-panel sta-tions that would charge the phones. These stations would also provide a source of work for residents.

It is amazing how the efforts of one person can change a life. My

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“For me, ‘Lila’ has a spirit of self-assured-ness in her woman-hood, and ‘Rachel’s’ es-sence is serenity and peace,” Schonbak said. “I see both figures as thinly and beautiful-ly veiled. The veil adds mystery and entices the viewer to stop and re-spond.”

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Buckhead sculptor designs his pieces to capture ‘elegance of sensuality’

Buckhead sculptor Robert Kelly works to simplify forms so viewers of his work can decide what speaks to them. But he admits the shapes that speak most directly to him of-ten are based on the female body. He says his goal is to produce abstract works fo-cused on elegance.

“Women are very sensu-al,” Kelly said. “I strive to bring that elegance of sensu-ality to the viewer.”

The 69-year-old sculptor says he tries “to celebrate the grace of the female body and leave the rest to the viewer’s imagination.”

Kelly and fellow mem-bers of the Buckhead-based Atlanta Artist Center present “The Eighth AAC Multi-Artist, Mixed Media Exhibit at the Buckhead Library.” The show runs through May 31, with a reception that is open to the public on May 11.

In addition to sculptures, the exhib-it includes paintings, collage, photogra-phy, and jewelry, said Cheryl D’Amato, the AAC volunteer coordinator of art ex-hibits at the Buckhead Library.

For nearly six decades, AAC, a non-profit organization, has focused on pro-moting the artistic development of its members through workshops, seminars, exhibits and lectures.

Now retired from having his own

business in graphic design, Kelly said he began to immerse himself in sculpture as a hobby about seven years ago at the

suggestion of his wife of 33 years, Mary Kay, who thought the medi-um would be a good fit for him.

Kelly said he tries to combine the smooth-ness he admires in Con-stantin Brancusi with the simplicity found in Henry Moore’s work—both European sculp-tors of the 20th cen-tury—and create a contemporary version.

Among the pieces in the exhibit are “Li-

la-Master,” and “Rachel-New Master,” two abstract sculptures of female figures “that invite personal interpretations,” said AAC member Judith Schonbak.

Some of Kelly’s colleagues and oth-er viewers who have recently become ac-quainted with his work also offer their own interpretations of these two sculp-tures.

“I was drawn to ‘Rachel’,” Mike As-bury said. “I perceive her as evocative of an older era, such as the ‘Roaring Twen-ties.’ Her hair reminds me of the flappers. She looks as though she may be resting for a moment in deep introspection be-fore joining others in the fun and frivol-

Sandy Springs artist wants viewers to think about lost American roots

StORiES By MARthA nOdARSandy Springs sculptor

Steve Steinman says the works in his “Broken Circles” exhib-it are intended to make Amer-icans think.

Steinman believes that wasting natural resources, de-parting from manufactur-ing goods, and not placing enough emphasis on human relations contribute to what he sees as the loss of Ameri-can pride.

“We have lost our roots as Americans,” he said.

Now retired from aca-demia, Steinman, 65, said he learned about art early in life and his love for sculpture evolved naturally through the years. But, it is his social consciousness that underpins his current show at the Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery in Buck-head.

“I was raised by parents who grew up during the Depression, a time when peo-ple did not throw things away,” he said. “We also knew our neighbors.”

Growing up in a small town, Stein-

man said he learned from his previous generations to value things and to fix things rath-er than throw them away. He feels that back then a sense of continuity flowed from one generation to the next. That, symbolically, kept the circle intact. Now, he says, those circles are broken.

His parents collected art from around the world. His father, a World War II veter-an, also collected tools. Stein-man makes art from broken objects that find a home in

his studio.“Steve is trying to tell us through his

art work that we have become a careless society discarding our treasures,” said Su-san West. “He sees things with the eye of an artist and wants to raise our aware-ness.”

Carl Smith, an art teacher in Buckhead familiar with Steinman’s work, said “Jew-els of the Urban Jungle,” one of the piec-es in the exhibit, is made from industrial artifacts that have been reshaped and jux-

taposed.“I am under the impression Steve

might have used iron in particular in this composition to perhaps symbolize the shift from a strong manufacturing nation we once were to a country more interest-ed in distributing,” he said. “I believe this piece may reflect Steve’s concern about our changing position in the world.”

Smith stresses that in his view, the cir-cle, which has become Steinman’s signa-ture, is very important because it symbol-izes continuity, and the juxtaposed pieces illustrate a break in that continuity.

Steinman emphasized that the mod-ern tendency to throw things away rath-er than repair them has contributed to a disruption in continuity. So has the incli-

nation to let technology interfere with hu-man contact.

“Technology has put us a step back,” he said. “People don’t talk face-to-face anymore. It is easier to stay in the shad-ows.

“I see some subtle signs of us trying to come back full circle and recover our American pride, but not nearly enough. We need to re-examine our choices and build on that.”

Jewels of the Urban Jungle by Steve Steinman

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Mom StoriesTuesday, May 7, 10:15 a.m. – Chil-dren enjoy special sto-ries about mom in three sessions: toddlers age 1 at 10:15 a.m.; age 2, 11 a.m., and preschool-ers ages 3-5, 11:45 a.m.

Babies have their own time too: on Wednesday, May 8, at 10:30 a.m., those ages 3-11 months can sit in caregivers’ laps for tales about mom, with songs, fin-gerplays and puppets. Free and open to all. Buck-head Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Atlan-ta, 30305. Email: [email protected] or call: 404-814-3500 for additional details.

Paddleboard RaceSaturday, May 11, 8 a.m. – The second annual Stand Up for the Hooch Race & Festival gets under way. Family-friendly event gets people paddling on the Chattahoochee River. Race consists of a three-mile beginner and six-mile elite course. Other activ-ities include: paddle board demo, paddle stroke tu-torial and a yoga demonstration. First race begins at 9:30 a.m. $48 (includes lunch.) Free children’s race. Rent paddleboards and register at: www.high-countryoutfitters.com. Morgan Falls Overlook Park, 200 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. Call 770-730-5600 or go to: www.visitsandysprings.org/standup for additional details.

Turtle ToursSaturday, May 11, 11 a.m. – Heritage Sandy Springs continues with its “Turtle Tours” education-al series for children ages 2-5 in the museum. This month, museum mascots “Sandy” and “Spring” en-tertain in “Learn to Help.” Free; donations encour-aged. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, visit: www.heritage-sandysprings.org, call: 404-851-9111 or email: [email protected].

Reclaim Our Parks Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. – Na-tional “Kids to Parks Day” encourages residents to use local parks and recreation sites to develop more active, healthy lifestyles. Event features games, field day activities, races, inflatables, water slides, balloon artist, face painting, entertainment, raffles and more! No admission fee. Hammond Park, 705 Hammond Dr., Sandy Springs, 30328. For more details, call: 770-730-5600 or visit: www.sandyspringsga.gov and click on the Community Calendar.

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Book SaleFriday, May 10, 10-11 a.m. – Friends of the Brookhaven Li-brary host a book sale. First hours reserved for Friends members only; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. the sale is open to the pub-lic. Event continues Sat-urday, May 11, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission and open to everyone. Park in the back and enter at the lower level. Brookhav-en Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. Call

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Library Support Thursday, May 16, 1 p.m. – Special pre-view for Friends of the Dunwoody Library, dur-ing their book sale. Browse 25,000 current hard-back novels, paperbacks, children’s books, videos, CDs, DVDs, records, magazines, puzzles and col-lectibles. Most priced $.25 to $2. Silent auction features unique, hard-to-find items. Proceeds ben-efit the library and the county system. Free admis-sion. Sale open to the public Thursday, 4-8 p.m., and continues Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday, May 20 is Bag Day, fill a large sack for $6, from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-512-4640 for details.

5K at Perimeter MallSaturday, May 18, 8 a.m. – Flat, fast 5K which runs around Perimeter Mall. Runners re-ceive a complimentary slice of pizza and Coca-Cola products after the race. T-shirts, swag bag. Overall male and female winners get iPad Mini. Post-race party includes music and activities for families. Hot wing eating contest for the first 100 (runners) sign-ups. 5K: $25; 5K + wing eating contest, $25; af-ter May 4, $30. Proceeds benefit Camp Southern Ground. Northeast corner of Perimeter Mall park-ing lot, 90 Perimeter Center West, Dunwoody, 30346. For more information and to register, visit: http://dominosdare.com.

Food ‘n’ FunSunday, May 19, 1-5 p.m. – Join others at the Community Assistance Center’s first Food `n Fun Festival! Outdoor, family event features activities and games for all. Participate in the Hunger Aware-ness Walk, shopping cart decoration contest and parade, and food drive contest. Hunger Awareness Walk open to teams, families and individuals. Regis-ter to walk online: www.ourcac.org/foodnfun. $20, adults; $10, ages 12-18; under 12, free. Registered adults get t-shirt; kids get Frisbees. Includes entrance to festival. Non-walker festival admission fee is a bag of groceries or $5 per person. Proceeds benefit the CAC. Morgan Falls Athletic Complex, 450 Morgan Falls Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. To learn more, go to: www. ourcac.org.


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Buckhead FestivalSaturday, May 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. – There’s something for everyone as 175 artists representing all disciplines sell and exhibit their creations at the two-day Buckhead Arts & Crafts Festival. The fourth an-nual event features live acoustic music, a profession-al children’s area and local foods and beverages. Free admission. Pets welcome. Continues Sunday, May 12, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 4469 Stella Dr., NW, Atlanta, 30327 (Chastain Park). To learn more, call: 404-873-1222, email: info@¬affps.¬com or go to: www.affps.com.

Dunwoody Art Festival

Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. – A Mother’s Day tradition in Dunwoody, the two-day festival along Chamblee-Dunwoody Road at-tracts artisans from across the country. Enjoy the art-ist market, “Kidz Zone,” with rides, sand art, crafts and games. Continuous live music, and food court with bites from neighborhood restaurants. Free ad-mission and open to all. Leashed pets welcome. Rain or shine. Continues Sunday, May 12, 12:30-5 p.m. 5506 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Email: splashfe¬stivals@¬gmail.¬com or vis-it: http://splashfestivals.com with questions.

Cello ConcertSunday, May 12, 4 p.m. – The Skylight Gal-lery concert series presents “Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio,” by Claude Bolling, featuring cellist Brad Ritchie with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Brent Runnels, on piano. General admission, $10 for nonmembers; free admission for Ogletho-rpe University Museum Members, OU faculty/stu-dents/staff. 4484 Peachtree Rd., NE, Brookhav-en, 30319. For additional details, go to: museum.oglethorpe.edu or call: 404-364-8555.

Concerts by the Springs

Sunday, May 12, 7 p.m. – Concerts by the Springs celebrates its 17th year with The Tams, who perform R&B, soul and beach music. Free, outdoor concert is open to the public. No pets. Picnic bas-kets, coolers and blankets are welcome; no outside tables. Additional food and beverages available for purchase. No smoking. Heritage Green, on the San-dy Springs Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions? Visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org, call: 404-851-9111, ext. 4 or email: [email protected].

Painting to MusicThursday, May 16, 6-9 p.m. – Outdoor event held under the canopy of the Big Trees Forest Pre-serve. Watch art created by Heather Wilkerson, ac-companied by local musicians. Free and open to all. Part of the 2013 ArtSSprings celebration. Visitors encouraged to explore the forest paths before and after the performance. Light refreshments served. 7645 Roswell Rd., Sandy Springs, 30350. To learn more, visit: www.artsandysprings.org.

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Genealogy SearchTuesday, May 7, 4-5 p.m. – Dr. D. L Hen-derson discusses the basics of researching your fami-ly tree. Free and open to the community. For seniors (55 and older). Dunwoody Public Library, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-512-4640 to find out more.

Preserve MemoriesSaturday, May 11, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. – Share and preserve your Asian-Pacific experiences with StoryCorps. Interviews are a 40-minute conversa-tion between two friends, family members or co-workers. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Free and open to the public. For adults. To register, call 770-512-4640 or visit the Dunwoody Branch Li-brary to reserve your recording time. Participants will also learn how to preserve family stories, pho-tos and documents. 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

Wildflower WalkSaturday, May 11, 10-11:30 a.m. – Have you ever seen a beautiful wildflower and wanted to know what it was? Join native plant expert Wal-ter Bland for a peek into the world of wildflowers. Identify native plants during a walk through the Blue Heron Nature Preserve. Open to all. $10. Class size limited. RSVP by calling 404-345-1008. 4055 Roswell Rd, Atlanta, 30342. For additional details, email: nancy-jljones@¬mindspring.¬com or go to: www.bhnp.org.

Fiction Writing Saturday, May 11, 12-2 p.m. – Learn how to write fiction in this workshop, by understanding a few steps: Decide on accomplishments; exploring submittal options; receiving feedback; reaching per-sonal goals. Free and open to the public. For adults. Registration required by emailing: [email protected]. Call: 404-603-3130 or email: [email protected] with questions. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon High-way, Sandy Springs, 30328.

Health ScreeningsTuesday, May 14, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. – North-side Hospital holds free community health screenings. Includes: Non-fasting cholesterol and glucose; blood pressure; body composition; osteo-porosis screening; bladder health; lung capacity; sleep quality; coronary risks. Call 678-812-4000 to reserve a time. Walk-ins welcome. For more in-formation email: [email protected] or call her at: 678-812-3798. Marcus Jewish Com-munity Center - Atlanta, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. www.atlantajcc.org.

Preventive HealthTuesday, May 14, 2-3 p.m. – Learn how tak-ing advantage of preventative services can improve the quality of your health. Become familiar with what Medicare covers and other free/low-cost op-tions available in the community. For senior citizens (55 and older). Open to the first 30 participants. Free. All are welcome. Call: 404-848-7140 or visit the Brookhaven Branch Library to register. 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319.

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Thursday, May 16, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. – Document life experiences through writing, and gain a new perspective on your experiences. Ses-sion combines writing stories with sharing in small, group settings. Not a “writing course;” no experience needed. Free and open to the commu-nity. For adult audiences. Registration required by emailing: [email protected] or calling: 678-386-1651.Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

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Grieving pet owners fi nd comfort, support after lossBY J.D. MOOR

Editor’s note: Brookhaven writer J.D. Moor attended Georgia Veterinary Spe-cialists’ pet loss support group after his cat, Jem, died last December.

For many of us, our pets are like fam-ily. � ey provide constant companion-ship, unconditional love and joy.

I was my cat’s caregiver for years. He needed two insulin shots and two other medications each day. He was nearly 20 years old when his kidneys shut down.

Suddenly, caregiving meant the emo-tional whiplash of choosing euthanasia instead of sustaining his life. Novelist Carol Anshaw once wrote that “taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.” With Jem’s � nal illness, my own contract with sorrow had come to fruition.

Luckily, I found a place to talk. Re-tired psychologist Robin Chisolm-Sey-mour leads a pet loss support group at Georgia Veterinary Specialists in Sandy Springs. “Painful memories, including ones of guilt, will slowly turn to recog-nizing the gifts that Jem gave you, both in life and in death,” she said.

Her own cat’s death o� ered such a gift in disguise. Chisolm-Seymour was in the GVS waiting area, while seeking care for her ailing cat, Ming. By chance, she met the clinic’s marketing manager, Kim DeMeza.

“I discovered that Robin had a pas-sion for helping people and pets. We started the conversation about a group that day and, after several months in-cluding much research as well as Ming’s passing, we had a plan that we felt was kismet,” DeMeza said.

Since 2008, some 170 people have attended the 90-minute meetings. � e gatherings are held every week on Wednesday evenings; they are free and anyone can attend multiple times.

For optimal comfort and discussion, the group usually numbers four to six people.

Aleida Oehlke of Buckhead had two bichons and a cat die within nine months of one another. “My heart will never be the same with them gone,” she said. “Robin’s words taught me skills to cope. She has the heart to understand how deep the pain is with each loss.”

Other participants say the group dis-cussions helped them, too.

Chip Little of Brookhaven lost his beagle, Charlotte, when she was 16. “Robin recommended the book, ‘� e Loss of a Pet’, …and we cried a lot,” he said. Four months later, he adopted a rescue beagle. “We named him Charlie in Charlotte’s honor,” he said.

Darla Yamaato’s dog, LeiLei, died of pneumonia when she was only nine months old. “It felt like the life had been sucked right out of me,” the San-dy Springs woman said. “It helped me to hear how some other members (of the group) were working through their grief.”

Nahum Nicholas fosters many cats until they are adopted. When two of her own elderly cats died six months apart, she sought out the group.

“It helps just to have a place where I can talk about my pets and spend time thinking of them, since other people in my life may not welcome my need to grieve them, especially after the � rst few days or weeks after their passing,” Nich-olas said.

Many group members learn to channel their grief in positive ways.

Some people write journals � lled with warm memories. Others create memorials on Facebook, plant a tree or erect a bird-house. And some do volunteer work with shelters and trap-neuter/spay-return pro-

grams. Group facilitator Chisolm-Seymour

acknowledged the degree of pain re� ects how much love was felt for the pet, but the group’s magic is in commiseration.

“� e most rewarding thing to see is not only how each person begins the journey toward healing,” she said, “but also how many are able to reach out to help the oth-ers.”

GVS isn’t the only place o� ering grieving pet owners a place to face their losses.

� ere are a number of pet bereave-ment groups available online and in per-son.

-A pet loss support group meets at the crematory facilities of Deceased Pet Care in Chamblee. � ese sessions began in 2012 and are led by Counselor Jen-nifer Wilmoth, a licensed associate mar-riage and family therapist. � ey meet for 60 minutes, but only once a month on the � rst Tuesday. � is group also is open to the

public and free. “� e group is a great place for peo-

ple to learn about the grieving process in a supportive environment after the loss of their beloved family pet,” Wilmoth said. For more information, call 770-457-7659 or visit www.deceasedpetcare.com.

-� e Paws, Whiskers and Wags pet crematory o� ers an in-person 90-minute session the � rst Tuesday of each month. Free and open to the public, the meet-ings are held in Decatur. For more infor-mation, call 404-370-6000 or visit www.pawswhiskersandwags.com.

-� e ASPCA website has help on var-ious pet loss issues, including a hotline. Visit www.aspca.org/Home/Pet-care or call 877-474-3310.

-� e Association for Pet Loss and Be-reavement has a wide range of online ser-vices. Visit www.aplb.org.

For more information, call 770-642-3665 or visit www.gvsvet.com.

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Vets share tips for giving pets medicineBY DAN WHISENHUNT

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While humans may have made signif-icant gains in bridging the man-pet com-munication barrier, we’re not there yet, especially when it comes to medicine.

It would be helpful if we could some-how explain to our pets that the medic-inal pills we’re trying to give them will help them. But until a universal transla-tor for animal language is complete, vets say there are a few tricks that will help the medicine go down smoothly in the meantime.

Unfortunately for cat owners, get-ting cats to take medicine means a lit-tle more � nesse. Cats often are wise to whatever their owners are plotting, lo-cal veterinarians say. One option of last resort is a pill popper, a device that looks like a syringe with a plunger on the end. But good luck with that.

“Sometimes the cats will see you coming with that and take o� in the other direction,” said Dr. Zak Vrono with Vernon Woods Animal Hospital in Sandy Springs.

Dogs, on the other hand, tend to be a little more accepting of the vari-ous methods of tricking them into tak-ing medications. A pill disguised in a treat called a “pill pocket” usually does the trick.

“Dogs are more hunger-driven, and we usually don’t have a lot of prob-lems with dogs,” said Dr. Eric Mueller at Dunwoody Animal Hospital. “Cats tend to not like their face and mouth touched, it can be a lot harder, espe-cially with clients who did not have to medicate cats before.”

Dr. Edward Wier at Lawrence Ani-mal Hospital in Brookhaven said there’s also a biological reason dogs are more receptive to taking medicine. “Cats, unlike dogs, don’t have control of their

esophagus,” Wier said, meaning that the person administering the pill has to trigger the cat’s involuntary swallowing re� ex.

In some cases dogs can be � nicky too, the veterinarians say.

Mueller said he usually avoids wrap-ping up the pills in tempting snacks. Sometimes the disguises – like peanut butter or cheese – carry additional fat that isn’t good for the animal.

Mueller said he usually gives his dog, Bubba, his pill by hand.

“My own dog has a food allergy, so I can’t pill him with any type of food or treat. I pill him directly, sticking it on the base of his tongue,” Mueller said.

In some cases the pill can be sprin-kled over food or given in a liquid form that will be easier for the pets to digest. Veterinarians said customers with prob-lematic pets should ask vets if there’s an easier remedy.

For cats that have to take pills, the options are somewhat limited. � ere’s the pill popper, of course. Wier said one method he’s heard of is putting the pill in a bit of butter, freezing it and then giving it to the cat afterward.

Wier prefers a more direct approach. � e trick, Wier says, is to make sure the cat is looking straight up at the ceiling when administering medication.

Wier said owners of house cats can generally put their hands behind the back of their cat’s head and rotate their head so it is pointed straight at the ceil-ing. Wier said it’s easier to get a pill in-side a cat’s mouth in this position.

“If you look at the back of the cat’s mouth, the tongue forms a trian-gle,” Wier said. “If you hit the triangle there’s an involuntary re� ex” and the cat swallows the pill.

Vrono recommends reverse psychol-ogy.

“Hide it in a treat the best you can and get them real excited, have them

work for it like they would for any oth-er treat. � at way they don’t have the time to sit there and tell it’s any di� er-ent,” Vrono said.

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Holy Innocents’ Episcopal SchoolDate: May 18Time: 10 a.m.Place: Main gym, 805 Mount Ver-

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Date: May 28Time: Mass at 10:30 a.m.; gradua-

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Mount Vernon Presbyterian

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Amber Abernathy felt the issue of gun violence personally.

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“I, personally, have lost family mem-bers to gun violence, and I’ve seen how that can impact not just the victim’s life, but the life of everyone involved, includ-ing the families,” Amber said.

Amber was motivated to make a dif-ference. She thought other teens need-ed to better understand the effects of vi-olence to be able to see options to get away from it. “I feel like it’s time to take a stand and be the person I’m called to be,” she said. “Not just for me but to help other people.”

So, last November, she put togeth-er a seminar to teach students at Wood-land Middle School in East Point about gun violence. About 60 students attend-ed the program, titled “All Teens Against Violence.” Amber brought in a police-man from East Point as a guest speak-er to discuss the effects of violence and ways to avoid it.

At the end of the seminar, Amber dis-tributed goodie bags that included “All Teens Against Violence” wristbands. “I wanted the students to always have a constant reminder to have self worth and to help stop violence,” Amber said.

Amber’s seminar won national atten-tion. She won the Girl Talk organiza-tion’s national Julie Foudy Sports Lead-ership Academy’s “Choose to Matter” contest.

Girl Talk, a student mentoring pro-gram intended to help girls build self-esteem and leadership abilities and rec-ognize the value of community service, plays a large part of Amber’s life.

She has been a Girl Talk leader for al-most three years and is currently on the

group’s national teen advisory board. She helps raise funds for Girl Talk so that the program remains without charge for its leaders and members.

One of her favorite parts of Girl Talk, she said, is being able to inspire middle school girls as well as watching the pro-gram help young girls blossom. “I love how they inspire me,” Amber said.

Amber also helps come up with fun ideas to help Girl Talk expand, and was recently elected treasurer for the Nation-al Teen Advisory Board of Girl Talk.

Hannah Onley, a friend of Amber’s who also is a leader at Girl Talk, calls Amber “one of the most enthusiastic Girl Talk leaders I have ever met.”

“She has such a kind heart and always has a smile on her face,” Hannah said.

Although Amber’s nonviolence pro-gram began with gun violence, she doesn’t just want to focus only on that. She hopes to expand her program to bring awareness to all violence issues in-cluding emotional, physical and mental violence.

“I hope to expand my program na-tionally,” she said. “I think it is too im-portant of a topic to ignore.”

What’s Next: Amber hopes to attend college in

Washington, D.C. She plans to study international business relations or pub-lic policy. She also hopes to continue to spread her nonviolence program.

This article was reported and written by Sierra Middleton, who is a student at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School.

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At the horse park, he helps children with physical and mental disabilities ride horses to help them improve their balance, coordination, muscle strength and flexibility. By improving these areas, Joseph is able to give the children self-confidence.

“This is my favorite community ser-vice activity because I can help children and also work with animals at the same time,” Joseph said. “It is a very close-knit family here. I love working with the kids and seeing their excitement when they ride the horses.”

He has worked at the horse park since his freshman year at Holy Spirit Prepa-ratory School, but started getting signif-icantly involved at the beginning of his sophomore year. Along with the count-less hours of service at the horse park, Joseph has also worked at Canine Res-cue, Zoo Atlanta, and volunteered at the Barrow County Humane Society.

Donna Peterson, the volunteer coor-dinator of the Therapeutic Riding Pro-gram, said, “Joseph has made significant contributions to Chastain Horse Park over the last few years. He is well liked by the children that he works with, the other volunteers, and the instructors.”

He also works at the Gwinnett An-imal Hospital as part of the kennel team. “It’s been a great experience be-cause that’s what I want to do and I re-ally enjoy it,” Joseph said. “We take care of boarding cats and dogs. We take them to the restroom and on walks. We do the

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Joseph has also been in the Atlan-ta Boy Choir since age 11. He now per-forms with the Men’s Ensemble, which is the choir’s alumni group. He has had the opportunity to travel to Russia, the Ukraine, Austria, the Czech Republic, the western United States, Alaska and Italy. He also performed at the Vatican and a community near his father’s home town in Italy. This summer, he will be traveling with the choir to Nova Scotia.

“The boy choir is a great place to grow up. We’re a group of boys and men from very different backgrounds who have formed a close friendship through our common appreciation of music,” Seta said.

Joseph says he hopes to continue singing with the choir and working at the horse park while he attends college at the University of Georgia next year. “It’s not too far to drive back to Chas-tain Horse Park,” he said.”

What’s Next: Joseph plans to attend the University

of Georgia. He plans to major in animal science in the pre-veterinary program. He hopes to become a veterinarian who works with farm animals, cats, dogs and horses.

This article was reported and written by Parker DeFreese, who attends Marist School.

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The Southern Association of Colleg-es and Schools (SACS), which accred-its schools regionally, put the DeKalb County system’s accreditation on proba-tion because of management issues in-volving the county school board.

Some Dunwoody parents fear that if SACS revokes DeKalb’s accreditation during the next school year, students graduating high school may face a hard-er time winning scholarships or accep-tance to some out-of-state colleges. So they want to seek a back-up accredita-tion from the Georgia commission, an independent, 109-year-old agency that accredits Georgia high schools.

“High school accreditation is sim-ply too important for us to sit by and do nothing,” said Dunwoody City Coun-cilman Terry Nall, who has been work-ing to win approval of the back-up ac-creditation, to about 50 parents and local officials who attended a meeting April 28 of the Dunwoody Parents Con-cerned About Quality Education, a new nonprofit organization working to im-prove Dunwoody schools.

Nall said undertaking the Georgia commission’s accreditation process will cost Dunwoody parents from $2,000 to $3,000. He said several individuals and groups already have volunteered to con-tribute.

Coleman said school board members want to make sure the process is avail-able to all the high schools in DeKalb, and the district may contribute some funds to high schools that need the aid.

Nall said he had been assured by SACS that Dunwoody High’s efforts to win a separate accreditation would have no effect on SACS’ decision regarding the county system’s accreditation.

DeKalb school officials have said they believe it is highly unlikely that the county schools will lose their SACS ac-

creditation. Interim School Superinten-dent Michael Thurmond says school of-ficials are working to address SACS’ complaints and will do so by the agency’s deadline. Gov. Nathan Deal removed six board members and appointed replace-ments to address the accreditation issue.

Nall called the state accreditation “a safety net” for students graduating next year and in following years. If SACS pulls its accreditation of the county’s high schools, he said, Dunwoody stu-dents still will be able to claim they grad-uated from “an accredited high school.”

Some out-of-state colleges require ac-creditation from SACS or another re-gional agency, he said, but others will accept the state accreditation.

“This is about all college-bound stu-dents in DeKalb County,” Nall told par-ents at the April 28 meeting at Dun-woody United Methodist Church. “The board needs to hear [from parents] that this is for all over DeKalb County. It’s not just for Dunwoody. Because if it’s just for Dunwoody, it’s not going to fly.”

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RoBBeRy � 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – A

robbery in the street using a gun was report-ed on April 17.

� 2400 block of Dunwoody Crossing – A robbery at a residence using a gun was re-ported on April 18.

BuRgLaRy � 2800 block of Sumac Drive – A burglary to

a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on April 12.

� 5300 block of Fairfield North – A burglary to a residence, with-out using forced en-try, was reported on April 13.

� 2300 block of Dunwoody Cross-ing – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on April 15.

� 2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on April 15.

� 3500 block of Abercorn Avenue – A bur-glary to a residence, using forced entry, was reported on April 16.

� 1200 block of Witham Drive – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on April 17.

� 2800 block of Fontainebleau Drive – A bur-glary to a residence, without using forced en-try, was reported on April 19.

� 2400 block of Peeler Road – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was report-ed on April 20.

� 1100 block of Atcheson Lane – A burglary to a residence, using forced entry, was re-ported on April 20.

� 1700 block of Mount Vernon Road – A bur-glary to a residence, without using forced en-try, was reported on April 22.

� 1600 block of Chateau Drive – A burglary to a residence, without using forced entry, was reported on April 23.

� 2600 block of Fontainebleau Drive – A bur-glary to a residence, without using forced en-try, was reported on April 25.

auto tHeft � 1200 block of Redfield Ridge – Theft of an

auto was reported on April 13.

� 2200 block of Dunwoody Crossing – Theft of an auto was reported on April 15.

� 6800 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – Theft of an auto was reported on April 20.

tHeft/LaRceNy � 5300 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road

– larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on April 12.

� 5400 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – larceny of articles from a vehicle was re-ported on April 12.

� 4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny was reported on April 12.

� 5700 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 13.

� 1200 block of Dunwoody Walk – larceny of articles from a vehicle was

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� 4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – larceny of parts from a vehicle was report-ed on April 13.

� 1600 block of Mount Vernon Road – Shop-lifting was reported on April 13.

� 5300 block of Harris Circle – larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 13.

� 1100 block of Redfield Ridge – larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 13.

� 1000 block of Perimeter Walk – larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 14.

� 4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting was reported on April 14.

� 4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – larceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on April 15.


� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny was reported on April 16.



� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – A larce-ny from a building was reported on April 17.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – larceny of parts from a vehicle was report-ed on April 17.

� 2500 block of Mount Vernon Road – Shop-lifting was reported on April 17.

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100 block of Perimeter Center West – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 17.

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny was reported on April 17.

1000 block of Crown Pointe Parkway – A larceny from a building was reported on April 18.

200 block of Perimeter Center Parkway – A larceny from a building was reported on April 18.

100 block of Perimeter Center West – A lar-ceny from a building was reported on April 18.

4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 18.

5000 block of Sirron Court – Larceny of articles from a vehi-cle was reported on April 19.

5000 block of Sirron Court – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 19.

4600 block of Vermack Place – A larceny was reported on April 19.

4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Shoplifting was reported on April 19.

6700 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – A larceny was reported on April 19.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place/Ash-ford Crossing – Larceny of articles from a ve-hicle was reported on April 19.

4500 block of Pineridge Circle – A larce-ny from a building was reported on April 20.

4300 block of Georgetown Square – A lar-

ceny from a building was reported on April 20.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place – Shoplifting was reported on April 20.

100 block of Perimeter Center Place – Shoplifting was reported on April 21.

4500 block of Olde Perimeter Way – Lar-ceny of articles from a vehicle was report-ed on April 21.

1600 block of Damon Court – A larceny from a building was reported on April 22.



4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A larceny from a building was


2100 block of Peachford Circle – Larceny of articles from a vehicle was reported on April 25.

ASSAULT 5400 block of Seaton

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2100 block of Peachford Road –A sexual assault was reported on April 16.

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Assault through intimidation was reported on April 16.

300 block of Perimeter Center North – Simple assault/battery was reported on April 18.

1500 block of Summerset Drive – Simple assault/battery was reported on April 21.

2300 block of Peachford Road – Family

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4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody – Larceny of articles from a

– Larceny of articles from a vehicle

4600 block of Vermack Place – A

4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road


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levard – Credit card fraud was reported on April 13.

� 5400 block of Seaton Drive – Fraud was re-ported on April 15.

� 2100 block of Cobble Lane – Credit card fraud was reported on April 15.

� 4300 block of Georgetown Square – Fraud was reported on April 17.

� 5000 block of Brooke Farm Drive – Fraud through impersonation was reported on April 17.

� 4500 block of Barclay Drive – Forgery was reported on April 18.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Fraud through impersonation was reported on April 19.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A swindle was reported in April 19.

� 4400 block of N. Peachtree Road – Fraud through impersonation was reported on April 22.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dun-woody Road – Fraud through im-personation was reported on April 23.

� 4400 block of Kellogg Circle – Fraud through impersonation was reported on April 23.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Check forgery was report-ed on April 24.

� 2200 block of Dunwoody Cross-ing – A worthless check was reported on April 25.

� 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Fraud through impersonation was reported on April 25.

� 5200 block of Seaton Drive – Fraud through impersonation was reported on April 25.

� 1000 block of Crown Pointe Parkway – Fraud was reported on April 25.

otHeR � 4600 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road

– Criminal trespass was reported on April 12.

� 4700 block of Chamblee Dunwoody Road – disorderly conduct was reported on April 12.

� 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – disorderly conduct was reported on April 12.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – Criminal trespass was reported on April 12.

� 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – disorderly conduct was reported on April 13.

� 4600 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road/Meadow Lane Road – A loitering violation was reported on April 13.

� 4600 block of Peachtree Place Parkway – Public indecency/indecent exposure was re-ported on April 13.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Ha-rassing communications were reported on April 14.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive – disorder-ly conduct was reported on April 15.

� 285 Eastbound-Exit 30 Ramp/Chamblee Dunwoody Road – dis-

orderly conduct was reported on April 16.

� 4900 block of Winters Chapel Road – Aggravated stalking

was reported in April 16.

� 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody Road – A loitering violation was report-

ed on April 16.

� 5100 block of Mount Vernon Way – Harassing communi-cations were reported on April 16.

� 4400 block of Tilly Mill Road – A kidnapping of an adult was


� 100 block of Ashford Gables Drive – dis-orderly under the influence was reported on April 18.

� 1st block of Perimeter Center East – Crimi-nal trespass was reported on April 18.

� 6600 block of Peachtree Industrial Boule-vard – A civil dispute was reported on April 19.

� 1500 block of Summerset Drive – A civil dispute was reported on April 19.

� 2200 block of Pernoshal Court – disorder-ly conduct was reported on April 20.

� 4200 block of Peachford Circle – A civil dispute was reported on April 23.

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Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

2Spring Up Art ExhibitHoly Innocents5-8 pm

3GA Artists Juried Art ExhibitAbernathy Arts Ctr.6:30-8:30 pm

Foodie FridaysKudzu & Co. 5-8 pm

4ShowstoppersYouth Talent ShowAct 3 Playhouse11 am, 3 pm, 8 pm

Children’s StorySandy Springs Library2:30 pm

5Art in the ParkMorgan Falls 1-4 pm

9 10Foodie FridaysKudzu & Co. 5-8 pm

11Faerie House WorkshopPhoenix & Dragon10 am-12:30 pm

12Bud, Not Buddy Sandy Springs Library4:30 pm

Concert by the Springs Heritage Green7 pm

16H. WilkersonPainting to MusicBig Trees Preserve6-9 pm

17Foodie FridaysKudzu & Co. 5-8 pm

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2013

Talented young performers from the Atlanta area will wow audiences during ShowStoppers 2013, the youth talent show at Act 3 Theater, 6285-R Roswell Road: May 4th11am (Elementary), 3pm (Middle) & 8pm (High School)Visit www.artsandysprings.org for tickets.

Gourmet food trucks from the Atlanta Street Food Coalition and entertainment by Steve's Live Music will gather at Kudzu & Company (open for events)6450 Roswell Road every Fridayduring ArtSSpring: April 26, May 3, May 10 & May 17 from 5-8 PM

Dine Out and Support ArtSS!April 20th - May 19th 30 days - 13 Restaurants - 28 Artistshave joined forces to sell art to supportArtSS. A portion of the proceeds goes to Art Sandy Springs.Participating Restaurants & Artists:Brooklyn Cafe -Suzanne Engel, Emily Hirn, Cathyrn Miles, Ellen Stein, Susan WestmorelandB's Bistro - Michael Mirabella, Sonja Davis Austell, Debra BoothBreadwinner - Phyllis Adilman, Marta L. SuarezBlue Grotto - Fran ScherFood 101 - Diann ShaftmanHammock’s Trading Co. - Julie MannLa Petite Maison - Lynn Tolleson, Theresa FormanCafe Posh - Sam Alexander, Doug FrommNancy G's - Belle Malone, Shirley SequinThe Flying Biscuit - Jackie BrownSushi Mio - Jean PaddockA Royal A�air Cafe - Mary Wyman, Mimi Roberts, Sylvia Perkins, Diann Hooker, Judy ClarkThe Brickery - Gonzalo Ramirez, Heidi White

2013 Calendar

OODIEFriday

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A 30 day celebration of the Arts,April 18 to May 17

A project of Art Sandy Springs

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