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Riverwood International Charter School’s Salutatorian, Caroline Albright, shows excitement during her speech at the school’s 42nd commencement held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on May 21. See additional graduation photos from area public and private high schools on pages 18-19.

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

Sandy Springs City Council is including $1 million in the city’s 2016 budget to pay part of the cost of including a segment of the multi-use trail in the redesign and re-construction of the Ga. 400/I-285 intersec-tion. Other money for the $4 to $5 million project will come from the PATH Founda-tion and the Georgia Department of Trans-portation, representatives of those groups said.

Eventually, offi cials said, the trail could connect to PATH400 in Buckhead and to other trails extending north of I-285. Th at would tie Sandy Springs into a network

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‘Operation Vittles’ lifted Berlin residents after war

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

Others may recall the 14-month airlift as one of the great international showdowns of the Cold War or as a signal hu-manitarian eff ort, but Whitman remembers it a diff erent way. It was simply his assignment as a young Navy pilot.

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

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

In 1947, Whitman was part of a Navy transport unit sta-tioned in Guam. He fl ew a plane the Navy called a R5D, a military plane similar to the commercial DC-4. In Novem-

ber 1948, he and his squadron were ordered to Germany to join the airlift supplying Berlin.

After World War II, the allied victors had divided Germa-ny and its former capital, Berlin, into zones. In Berlin, the

Soviets controlled the eastern zone and the U.S., British and French each controlled a section in the west. But Berlin stood 100 miles inside the portion of Germany set aside for Soviet control, and the Soviets felt the entire city should all be under their sway.

To try to force a change, the Soviets closed rail and road access to Berlin, cutting it off from outside supplies. Th e western allies responded

with the airlift. A nonstop line of supply planes fl ew loads of food, coal and other necessities from Frankfort to Berlin. Th e Americans nicknamed the mission “Operation Vittles.”

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As a boy, Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul didn’t get his honey from a store. His grandfather tracked feral bees to hollowed-out trees to reap the honey.

“He was a true outdoorsman,” the mayor said.

By the time Paul was 12, he said his father invested in bees to provide hon-ey for the family.

“My dad bought fi ve beehives from a beekeeper and it was my responsi-bility to maintain and check on the hives,” Paul said.

Much has changed since Paul was a boy, and some of those changes re-newed Paul’s interest in his childhood chore.

“Honey bees have come under more threats,” he said, explaining that Colony Collapse Disorder and diseas-es have devastated the bee population. “So, I’ve taken a greater interest in [bee-keeping].”

About fi ve or six years ago, Paul bought a colony or two for his Alabama cabin. All of his bees survived the winter this year for the fi rst time. So he decided to install a new colony in Sandy Springs’ Lost Corner Park.

“A great opportunity exists in urban beekeeping,” he said.

Paul put the honey-makers in a fenced-off area of the city park in May. He said bees’ ability to pollinate fruits and vegetables directly aff ects Sandy Springs residents’ quality of life.

“Th e addition of the hives to Lost Corner is a win-win all around. Th e bees get a cozy place to stay, the environment benefi ts from the pollination and our human residents are able to observe the marvelous world of bees,” he said.

Th e president of the Metro Atlanta Beekeepers Association, Cindy Hodges of Dunwoody, agrees that bees are crucial.

“Th e importance here is that the bees are like the ‘canary in the coal mine,’” she said. “If they have issues, then it

won’t be long before we do, too.”Educating people about bees is at the

heart of the mayor’s initiative and the city will plan educational programs in the future.

“First it’s about establishing the colo-ny, then, when it’s strong enough, we’ll off er formalized classes of maybe two or three people at a time and show them the basics,” Paul said.

While not expected to produce large quantities of honey, Paul said his new-est residents likely will provide “sweet reward” in time for next year’s harvest.

But “nobody’s trying to sell honey commercially,” Paul said.

Bees act as a group, a super organ-ism, and they only have two goals in life, Hodges said. One is to get enough nec-tar and pollen—enough food—to get them through the winter and the second is to reproduce.

“Honey bees are not dangerous at all unless you invade their hive,” Paul said. He added that he can go an entire year dealing with 200,000 honey bees, and not get stung.

Information on classes for educat-ing “junior beekeepers” and adults can be found at metroatlantabeekeepers.org.

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“It’s a study to look at whether a new interchange on the west side of the Chattahoochee River at Powers Ferry would help manage Braves traf-fi c” and also would alleviate commuter traffi c that now uses Riverside Drive in Sandy Springs, Mayor Rusty Paul said.

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Th e company, based in Philadelphia, oversees more than 130 public assembly fa-cilities around the country, and nearly 24 million people attended events in its venues last year, the city said. Global Spectrum is part of Comcast-Spectacor, which operates in 48 states and owns the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team, the city said.

“We are creating a sense of place in our downtown area, and the experience, our ability to maintain activity there at varying times of the day, is a critical factor in the project’s success,” Mayor Rusty Paul said in a press release.

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BY TIM DARNELLCarolyn Axt may be retiring from the

Sandy Springs leadership organization she’s headed since 2001 so she can trav-el more, but she’s not giving up on civ-ic activities.

“It’s time to cut back,” she said re-cently. “But I plan to stay involved with the community.”

When Axt took over Leadership San-dy Springs (LSS), the or-ganization had not spon-sored one of its annual classes in several years. Founded in 1988, the or-ganization’s goal is to ed-ucate and develop com-munity leaders through a broad series of programs and events.

“I was a graduate of LSS, and I agreed to take it over and revitalize it,” she said. “It was almost like starting from Ground Zero. We had a small checking account and no fi nancial sustainability at all.”

Axt worked to get the program’s lead-ership classes under way again, develop some funding and build a strong net-work of alumni. Soon, graduates of the organization were playing key roles in the community and taking important positions in the eff ort to create the city of Sandy Springs.

“Many of them served on task forc-es to build the city from the ground up,” Axt said. “We didn’t take any sort of political stance as an organization, but many of us were involved as individu-als.”

Th e creation of the new city also en-ergized Leadership Sandy Springs as an

organization, she said. “Municipaliza-tion brought in new faces to work with, and it also brought attention to the fact that our community had become an of-fi cial entity,” Axt said. “Th e energy asso-ciated with becoming a city transferred over to us.”

Today, LSS sponsors annual events other than its leadership class, includ-

ing Movies by Moonlight, the Better Sandy Springs Day and Youth Leader-ship Sandy Springs. Axt herself will be in charge of the Sandy Springs Civic Roundtable.

“Th e roundtable is de-signed to bring other non-profi ts together to discuss common challenges and concerns,” Axt said. “It’s all about sharing ideas with collaborative oppor-tunities.”

After Axt’s formal re-tirement, Jan Paul, execu-

tive vice president of iSquared Commu-nications, takes the role as president of the organization. “Th is has been in the works for about a year,” Axt said. “I’ve been working with our staff to prepare for the transition, and I’m excited about the future of Leadership Sandy Springs.”

LSS Board of Trustees president Bob Levinson said the organization is in good hands with Paul’s leadership. “She has a passion about LSS that is infectious, and our selection committee felt she would be an excellent choice to be the face of LSS to our community,” he said.

Axt agrees. “LSS has a fantastic future ahead,” she said, “and it will keep grow-ing just as our city continues to grow.”

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‘Operation Vittles’ lifted Berlin residents after the war

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

He fl ew two round trips a day. He fl ew mostly at night, so he often couldn’t see the devastated city. He didn’t fully realize how bad things were for residents of Berlin until some daytime fl ights took him close to bombed-out apartments. “Seeing how those people had to survive,” he said. “Peo-ple were out in the streets cleaning bricks just to rebuild. ... In the daytime, I was amazed by the rubble.”

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

Whitman got hooked on airplanes when he was growing up in Louisiana. One day when he was about 5 years old, he said, a barnstormer with an old sin-gle-engine monoplane was forced to land on the Whitman’s fi eld for repairs. Th e farm boy was captivated. “After that, my parents had to take me to the

airport every Sunday after church,” he said. “Th at’s where I got bit.”

He enlist-ed in the U.S. Navy out of high school. Th at led to 125 fl ights on the Berlin Airlift.

Th is past March, Whitman had a chance to fl y again in one of the planes used in the air-lift. Th e Berlin Airlift Historical Associ-ation, based in New Jersey, brought one of the planes to Pine Mountain to recre-ate a “candy drop.” Whitman planned to visit the same plane at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport during its annual “Good Neigh-bor Day” air show on May 30.

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

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

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Troy Chastain Memorial Park provides 268 acres of open space nestled at the boundaries of the city of Atlanta and the city of Sandy Springs. We know it as Chastain Park and for those who use it every day, it’s a respite in the middle of Buck-head’s urban core.

Chastain welcomes more than 2 million people a year through its variety of destinations, also known as “park part-ners.” Th ere is something for everyone, including a 6,500-seat outdoor amphitheater, a horse park, a tennis center, an out-door pool, an 18-hole golf course, an art center, a 3.2-mile PATH, a playground, ball fi elds and even a white table cloth restaurant.

With the area’s continued growth and increased densities along the business corridor, the park and all of its sites have never been more in demand. However, thanks to concerned neighbors who stepped up to take care of Chastain a decade ago, the Chastain Park Conservancy is helping the park keep pace with its ever-growing popularity today.

Back in 2003, a group of neighbors started “People for Chastain.” Th e group worked on removing graffi ti and in-creasing available green space by taking out overgrown plants and debris. By 2004, already seeing the value of their work, they decided to formalize and create what is now the Chastain Park Conservancy.

Now 11 years old, the conservancy, in conjunction with the city of Atlanta and other park partners, has worked on several park improvement projects including the Earth Craft-Certifi ed Tennis Center, 3 acres of reclaimed green space known as the Hill Top Fields, the PATH extension to the amphitheatre, and several other safety and beautifi -cation projects.

All of these park improvements are part of a greater 2008 Atlanta City Council-approved 20-year master plan for the park. Th e plan, available for download in its entirety at www.chastainparkconservancy.org, serves as the guiding document for capital improvements in the park.

In 2014, as part of its 10th anniversary, the conservancy launched a major capital campaign to support two of the main

master plan project initiatives: the widening of the PATH along Pow-ers Ferry Road, and the replace-ment and expansion of the play-ground. Th ese projects are known as “Walk Chastain” and “Play Chastain” respectively.

Th e conservancy’s 10th anniver-sary campaign has raised $4.4 mil-lion toward its $5.2 goal. Th anks in great part to the support of the conservancy’s board of directors, several Atlanta family foundations, the city of Atlanta, local business-es and neighbors, the conservancy has been able to launch the ground-breaking of the Walk Chastain project and Phase 1 of the Play Chastain project. Th e remaining funding gap will support the installation of play equipment at the playground as well as a 10-year maintenance fund.

One of the ways the conservancy plans to make up the diff erence in dollars needed is by launching a crowd-sourc-ing program for the specifi c play equipment. Neighbors and friends of the conservancy will soon be invited to invest in the new 40,000-square-foot, world-class playground by support-ing an individual piece, such as an oodle swing or zip line.

Other ways to support the CPC and become a part of its 10th anniversary legacy is to make a donation right on the Chastain Park Conservancy website. Th e conservancy board of directors is dedicated to making Chastain a destination for the health and well-being of all who enjoy it.

Walk Chastain and Play Chastain are two major ways that these engaged leaders look to in making the city of Atlanta an even better place to live. We hope you join us in support-ing our campaign and look forward to seeing you at Chastain Park soon.

Rosa McHugh is executive director of the Chastain Park Con-servancy.

Chastain’s revival: Much has been done, more to go

We are ‘for sale’To the editor:

Did you feel that target land on you today?

If you live on Northridge and points north to the river, you have been tar-geted for removal by the mayor and his merry men on the Economic Develop-ment Board. Th is group of 1-percent-ers has decided that that land has too much value for the likes of you and should be leveled and upgraded.

All that land along the river would be just great for the tourists they want to bring to Sandy Springs.

Did you think that “public/private” meant anything about actual people who live in the Sandy Springs? No, the city is for all the hypothetical peo-

ple who are going to come here. Did you think that “public/private” meant homeowners? Voters? Well, the joke is on you. Big wrong!

Th e mayor and his chorus of yes men (the councilmen) do not represent you unless you are going to put big money down on the table.

Call me naive, but I voted to become a city so that we would have a say in the destiny of our city, that we would have control of land use locally, and our neighbors, who we would elect, would act on the wishes of the homeowners and taxpayers, and that we would con-trol the destiny of Sandy Springs.

Boy, was I wrong, and I apologize to any and all that I asked to vote for city-hood.

And, I caution all that have bought the propaganda put out by the city that our model of government is the way to go. I will tell you, in my experience, and I attend most of the city meetings, that this is not the way to go.

Th ere is no one looking out for you and me except in a perfunctory way or to get your vote.

Follow the money. We have gone from the Golden Ghetto to the Plati-num Ghetto, and we are for sale. And, in the interest of business, get the hell out of the way, because our way of life here, the goose that laid the golden eggs, is being squeezed for everything she has got, and she is going to get choked to death with her own success.

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BY JON GARGISA new, larger facility could soon drive new sales at a

Sandy Springs car customization business.Cartunes of Atlanta moved into its new building at

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

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

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

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

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

BY TIM DARNELL Th e Perimeter area’s entrance into

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

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

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

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

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

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

“All of the areas we service are seeing plenty of growth,” Erbesfi eld said. “But the Buckhead, Sandy Springs and Chastain Park communities were the fi rst to come back online. We’ve stayed the busiest in those areas, and

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P E R I M E T E R B U S I N E S S


Sonesta ES Suites held a ribbon cutting on May

14, at its 760 Mount Vernon Highway location in Sandy Springs. Those

attending included, from left, Sandy Springs/

Perimeter Chamber of Commerce President/

CEO Tom Mahaffey, Will Carlson, Jennifer Cruce,

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

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

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

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

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

memory care facility.

Freedom Orthopedic + Rehab owner Thomas Joseph,

center, in white, was joined by Dunwoody Mayor Mike

Davis, at his left, Dunwoody Chamber President Stephanie

Snodgrass, friends and family in a ribbon cutting

announcing the opening of the new practice. Located

at 6840 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., the practice offers orthopedic surgery and physical therapy.

1160 Hammond Apartments recently celebrated its grand

opening with a ribbon cutting. Attending, from left, Alvin Hicks,

Kyle Fraim, Alexis Hollis, Erin Ross, Laura Hill, Chad Buckles, Marvin Cox and Sandy Springs/

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On May 4, Salons by JC, located in Sandy Springs Crossing, 6690 Roswell Road, Suite

404, in Sandy Springs, held a ribbon cutting. Owners Gerthy and Trevor Agard, center left

and right, had friends and family on site to celebrate,

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Supercuts, a full-service salon offering

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

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The recent slate of new cities has also meant some changes for landscap-ing businesses. “It impacts us in terms of the process of getting our permits ap-proved,” Erbesfield said. “Sandy Springs, Brookhaven and Dunwoody are all good to work with. The city of Atlanta is a bit more challenging, mainly due to their additional regulations.”

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

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mentally conscious today, Batcheller said. “We’ve seen trends leading to more drought-friendly grasses and smarter ir-rigation,” he said. “Even though we’ve had a lot of rain this season, water will continue being a big issue. We’re also seeing more customers ask for chemical applications that lessen the environmen-tal impact.”

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

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

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

“The only thing we really see com-ing down the pipe is more automa-tion in cars, a lot of home integration with cars, so when you pull up to your house, it turns on the air,” Kinard said. “A lot of smart things are going along with the computer car, like the Tesla. It’s an ultra-high-tech world, and usu-ally the cars are the forefront of tech-nology.”

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Soap Box Derby

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

Flying Colors Butterfl y Festival

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BY DONNA WILLIAMS LEWISBouncing around at the bottom of

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

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

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

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

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

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

abilities.Th inking about leaving made her

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mount Vernon Presbyterian

ValedictorianKatherine Ward

SalutatorianHannah Zenas

The Lovett School

ValedictorianMary Winslow Anderson

SalutatorianMelissa Houghton

Marist School

ValedictorianMyriam Shehata

SalutatorianCarlin Zaprowski

Cross Keys High

ValedictorianRaul Perez

SalutatorianBao Truong

Chamblee Charter High

ValedictorianArcher Gordon

ValedictorianKavi Pandian

SalutatorianSwapnil Agrawal

SalutatorianJose Hernandez

Schools honor top academic achievers

ValedictorianAbigail Joy Askew

SalutatorianShengjie “Jack” Bian

Brandon HallAtlanta Girls’ School

ValedictorianSydney Knight

SalutatorianPriya Arya

Atlanta International School

ValedictorianDavid Robinson

SalutatorianMatias Ferandel

ValedictorianAudrey Benson

SalutatorianCatriona Geddes

Holy Spirit Preparatory High

Valedictorian Meredith Jones

SalutatorianAlexis Wilkinson

Dunwoody High Holy Innocents’ Episcopal

ValedictorianClaire Kelsey

SalutatorianBrandon Jackson


The Westminster Schools

ValedictorianMary Boyd Crosier

ValedictorianElizabeth Ferguson

ValedictorianJohn Shen

SalutatorianHannah Gay

SalutatorianBenjamin Greenberg

The Weber School

Valedictorian Ilan Palte

ValedictorianBonnie Simono�

SalutatorianSamantha Le�

St. Pius X Catholic High

ValedictorianConnor Huddleston

SalutatorianNina Patronis

Riverwood International Charter

ValedictorianCarolyn Stanek

SalutatorianCaroline Albright

Pace Academy

ValedictorianMark Grenader

SalutatorianErin Rawls

North Atlanta High

ValedictorianKendall De Laria

SalutatorianRobert Leon

North Springs Charter High

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of trails, including Atlanta’s BeltLine, Mayor Rusty Paul said.

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

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

PATH Founda-tion Executive Direc-tor Ed McBrayer said the extension “was essential for us to get the trail through the Ga. 400/I-285 inter-section because we are trying to connect the area with trails.”

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

Th e fi rst half-mile-long seg-ment of PATH400 opened in Buck-head earlier this year and another por-tion is under construction. Mean-while, the Georgia Department of Transportation is planning a complete overhaul of the Ga. 400/I-285 inter-section that is expected to cost near-ly $1 billion. Federal authorities have agreed that the proposed Ga. 400/I-285 interchange will have no signifi -cant environmental impact, clearing the way for the state to move ahead with the project, GDOT announced.

Trail advocates have argued an ex-tension of PATH400 should be routed

through the intersection as part of the huge project, and Poole said the city’s long-range plans call for a bike trail along Ga. 400 from city limit to city limit.

“It’s been a great joint eff ort for this to be done while the big roadway is be-ing done,” Poole said. “We are apprecia-tive of GDOT’s willingness to do this.”

State transportation officials met recently with city officials from San-dy Springs and Dunwoody, and rep-resentatives of the PATH Founda-tion and the PCIDs, to develop the

plan for financing the new trail seg-ments, Pete Pel-legrini, construc-tion manager for the PATH Founda-tion, said during a Perimeter Business Alliance luncheon at the Hyatt Atlan-ta Perimeter at Vil-la Christina. “We have gone through a major milestone with GDOT. We can address some of the funding needs,” Pellegrini said.

Pellegrini said plans still have to be worked out to connect the Buck-head trail to the seg-

ment now being planned at Ga. 400 and I-285. Livable Buckhead Executive Di-rector Denise Starling said the group has applied for a federal grant for the con-necting segment.

Paul said he hoped the trail would al-low more commuters to fi nd ways to get to work other than driving their cars. “We’re looking at alternatives to vehicu-lar traffi c,” Paul said. “How do we move people, other than sitting in their cars? We’re looking at all the multi-modal ap-proaches to get people to and from San-dy Springs.”


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Police Blotter

The following incidents and ar-rests are some but not all, of the reports fi led with Sandy Springs

police from May 9 through May 22.

The following information was pro-vided by the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and

is presumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY � 200 block of Peachtree Hollow

Court—On May 16, a man said that just after 4 a.m. he was walking on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road when he was approached by car that stopped next to him. Th e driver asked if he needed a ride. He told the man no. Th e man in the car then asked if he smoked marijuana. He said he did not. Th e man then pulled a gun, pointed it at him and demanded his wallet. Th e victim gave him his wallet containing two dol-lars. Th e suspect looked at it and gave it back—taking nothing. He told the victim that if the cops found his fi nger-prints on it, he’d kill him. Th e suspect then drove away.

� 8000 block of Roswell Road—On May 17, a delivery driver said he de-livered an order to an apartment at the Dunwoody Pointe Apartments. No one answered at the door so the driver phoned the call-back number and was then approached by two men from the parking lot. One said he left his keys downstairs and turned as if to walk down the stairway, but then turned around holding a silver semi-automatic pistol. Th ey took the driver’s iPhone and the food.

BURGLARY � 1100 block of Mount Vernon High-

way—On May 9, a department store alarm activated just after 3 a.m. Offi cers found forced entry to the front door. A rock was found on the fl oor by the shat-tered glass door. A Michael Kors purse was found on the fl oor. About 15-20 purses were stolen. Store video showed two men in the store at 3:08 a.m. One suspect wore a long-sleeve grey shirt, jeans and a black ball cap with a yellow visor. Th e second suspect wore a dark blue hoodie and jeans.

�Whitley Park Drive—On May 9, offi -cers responding to an alarm just after 10 p.m. found a set of doors forced open. Nothing appears to have been taken.

� Lazarian Court—On May 9, a res-

ident said that around 9:45 p.m. she heard noises coming from her rear porch. She looked and found a man standing just inside the screened-in porch. Th e man fl ed. A search did not turn up the suspect. Th is home is just behind the home on Whitley Park Drive. Probably the same guy.

�Other burglaries were reported on May 10 on Cedar Run and on May 11 in the 200 block of Franklin Road and in the 5400 block of Glenridge Drive.

� 6900 block of Roswell Road—On May 13, someone reported a burglary of a condo where a 55-inch Samsung TV and a Bose audio system were taken while the resident was moving out. Th e loss is about $3,800.

�Harris Trail—On May 13, a resi-dent reported that between May 1 and 9 someone entered her garage and took items from it.

� 9000 block of Gables Lane—On May 13, a resident said someone kicked in

his door and took an iPad, SKS 7.62 rifl e and an Xbox game system.

� 1100 block of Hammond

Drive—On May 13, a resident said someone forced the deadbolt open, en-tered the apartment and took a pair of sunglasses. Th e offi cer noted that the resident said if the perp was caught, she would not prosecute. Well, fi rst of all, if we do fi nd this dude, we’re going to prosecute him (assuming it’s a him) so your non-commitment will have been wasted. Ha!! So there.

� 7000 block of Glisten Avenue—On May 14, a woman reported that some-one took several pieces of silver from her residence sometime between Febru-ary 15 and May 14.

� 1100 block of Hammond Drive—On May 14, a resident manager said they evicted a woman after three months of non-payments. When marshals entered to remove the items, it was discovered that most of the apartment’s applianc-es were gone.

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Local offi cers train to deal with ‘active shooters’

BY ELLEN [email protected]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sandy Springs Police Blotter � 3000 block of The Valley—On May

14, a resident said someone broke into his apartment and took a laptop. An ad-ditional burglary was discovered in the 5200 block of The Valley.

� 6300 block of Powers Ferry Road—On May 15, an alarm call activated around 2:30 a.m. Responding officers found smashed windows on the fast-food busi-ness and evidence of burglary. A small amount of cash was later reported miss-ing. Officers found blood, which was swabbed and entered as evidence.

� 4000 block of Spalding Forest Court—On May 15, a resident found his apart-ment door kicked in and his Xbox game system stolen.

� 6800 block Peachtree-Dunwoody Road—On May 15, a resident said he arrived home from work and found his door kicked open and a 32-inch Sharp LED TV missing.

ASSAULT � A man on Powers Chase Drive said

that just after 3 a.m., a car-for-hire driv-er punched him in the face after he com-plained that he was taking the wrong road. The passenger said the driver told him, “All I’m trying to do is take your drunk a** home [expletive deleted]” He told the driver to stop and he would get out. He said the driver threatened to kill him and punched him under the eye—then took him home. The man took a photo of the tag with his phone. He said the driver forcefully took the phone, at-tempting to delete the photo but failed

to do so.

� 6800 block of Roswell Road—On May 9, a man reported that around 4:20 a.m. he and his girlfriend woke to find two men, whom they met “a while back,” standing over them in the apartment bedroom. The resident told the men to leave. They hit him in the face and left in a Toyota 4Runner. The motive was not listed in the report. They believe the men climbed to the back patio area and enter-ing the apartment through an unlocked sliding door. The victim was treated at the scene and not seriously injured.

� 8100 block of Colquitt at the inter-section of Northridge Crossing Drive—On May 9, a 25-year-old woman said she was looking for her friend’s jacket and, while in her car, came upon about 10 people hanging around the intersection. She asked about the jacket, which some-how angered another girl who punched the victim in the eye, took her cellphone and ran off. The cops learned that the sus-pect’s name was possibly Tiffanye. When they spoke to the victim, she was evasive about the information. She didn’t seem to have much desire to find out anything more.

� Preston Woods Trail—On May 9, a man with a history of domestic violence was arrested during a domestic violence call.

� 100 block of Northwood Drive—On May 9, around 9 p.m., officers respond-ed to an assault and found a man who had been hit in the head by another man holding a gun. The suspect walked past

the victim and then said something to the man like, “If you talk to the police, I’ll shoot you” and then hit him. The vic-tim had a good-sized laceration and was transported to the hospital. He did not know the man who was about 30 years old and wore a sleeveless shirt and baggy pants. The same man had been seen ear-lier near the liquor store on Northwood Drive, with the gun in his waistband.

� 4900 block of Roswell Road—On May 9, a man was arrested for domestic vio-lence.

ARRESTS � 5500 Glenridge Drive—On May 9,

at 2:30 a.m., a beat officer passed a man standing next to his car. The man was uri-nating in the middle of the roadway. Ac-cording to the report, his genitalia was exposed so he was cited for public urina-tion. Middle of the road? If you’ve got to go and you can’t make it to the public re-stroom, look for bushes, or other isolat-ed areas (not yards of homes by the way) or take the hit and just get home quick-ly and change pants. We’ve never cited anyone for wetting their pants—at least not for that alone. Point is, middle of the road is not a good idea.

� 200 block of Northwood Drive—A man spotted a police car pulling into the parking lot and crouched down behind a car. Unfortunately for him, another po-lice car pulled into the area on the oth-er side of the lot and that officer spot-ted the man hiding. He confronted him and asked him what he was doing. The man said, “Don’t worry about it” which means “I’m drunk. Take me to jail.” He

was charged with prowling after he could not provide a reason he was there (didn’t live there) just before 1 a.m.

OTHER THINGS � Spring Creek Lane—A man said he

and a coworker had some cocktails be-ginning at 4 p.m. and ended up in bed together. The man woke to find another man standing over him with a gun, yell-ing “Get out before I kill you!” He, not needing to be told twice, took the hint and vacated in a hurry, minus his shoes and pants. The man with a gun turned out to be the boyfriend of the girl in bed with our victim. He said he had no gun and ordered the man to get out. The girl-friend confirmed the drinking and bed part, but said there was no gun involved. The officer retrieved the man’s pants and shoes and gave him a ride to MARTA for the long ride home—allowing time for reflection. Many of you know that Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote a very appropriate song about being at the wrong place and time with the wrong person. Fortunately for this dude, he gave him the three steps needed to git!

� 6900 block of Roswell Road—A man said he rented an apartment for two months and paid $1,300 to a woman for the rental. He moved in, but was soon visited by the apartment staff asking what he was doing in a vacant apartment. Now, he cannot get the woman to call him back. Lesson learned I hope. Most apartment complexes do not allow sub-renting. Not a good idea to agree and pay without a call to the office. Check with them first.


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

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

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

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