and residents Mildred Banks and Gerald Sanders, who live near the 21-acre site where the plant will be built.

The citizens group is seeking to over-turn the DeKalb Board of Commissioners’ July 14 approval of a special land use permit that allows the construction of the plant, once the developers secure the necessary air emission permits from EPD.

Lithonia City Council member Deborah Jack-son, who has championed the citizens’ fight against the plant, called the application withdrawal “significant.”

new application,” its attorney, Jimmy Kirk-land of the Atlanta law firm Womble Carlyle

Sandridge & Rice, wrote.Reached Wednesday,

Green Energy Partners President and CEO Nev-ille Anderson said that they plan to refile the application but that with a lawsuit pending, he could not comment any further.

“The letter speaks for itself,” he said. The withdrawal of the application comes

in the wake of a lawsuit filed on July 13 in DeKalb Superior Court by the nonprofit Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment

already has more than 30 scholarship offers from Division I schools.

“My top four schools are Penn State, University of South Carolina, Flori-da State University and Virginia Tech,” he said.

Jonathan, a Cedar Grove High junior, said

his goal is gaining more heart.“Whenever I throw an interception or

have a bad game, I got to learn how to shake it off and bounce back,” he said.

As a sophomore, Jonathan led the county in pass completion percentage with 65.2 per-cent. He threw for 3,343 with 24 touchdowns last season.

He also has received numerous offers from Division I schools, including the Uni-

By Carla Parker

High school football season kicks off Aug. 19 and the excitement is building.

Players and the coaches have worked all summer and now it’s time to rumble.

At the annual Media Day on July 27, winning a state championship was on every-body’s mind and tongue.

All 21 high schools located in DeKalb County showed up to introduce their players and talk of their hopes and aspirations.

Tucker High School head football coach F r a n k l i n S t e p h e n s summed it up for ev-eryone.

“People always ask-ing, ‘What you got, what you got?’” Stephens said. “Well, when we take the field on [Aug. 25] you’ll see.”

During the event at James R. Hallford Stadium in Clarkston, coaches from the DeKalb County school district’s 19 high schools and Decatur High School, Marist School and St. Pius X Catholic High School introduced the season’s players.

The Tucker Tigers are coming off a suc-cessful season in which they were the only DeKalb school to advance to the state semi-finals in Class AAAA. The Tigers fell short, losing to Fayette County’s Starr’s Mill High School in the Class AAAA semifinals 20-10.

Stephens said the team accomplished a lot last year but it wasn’t enough.

“We fell a little bit short,” Stephens said. “But I think the biggest thing about last year is that we had a lot of fun. This year we’re taking a similar approach.”

Last year’s DeKalb County leading rusher

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Green Energy withdraws biomass permit application

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By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Green Energy Partners has withdrawn its application to the Georgia Environmen-tal Protection Division for an air emission permit for its proposed $60 million biomass gasification plant in Lithonia.

In a July 20 letter to Furqan Shaikh of the EPD’s Air Protection Branch, the company said it wished to withdraw its permit applica-tion for the installation of a wood gasifica-tion process to generate electricity.

“As you are aware, EPD requested ad-ditional information regarding the process and the emission control equipment. [Green Energy Resource Center] believes the best way to address EPD’s request is to prepare a

“Green Energy clearly gave the impres-sion that EPD was ready to provide the air permit,” she said. “We told the BOC that was not the case and they did not listen.”

Green Energy Partners applied to the EPD on April 13, but in a May 6 response, Shaikh, the EPD’s NOx Permitting Unit manager, highlighted 15 deficiencies in the application for the construction and operation of the 11.85 megawatts wood gasification power plant and requested “a complete response to all the above information by July 5.”

Among other things, Shaikh said emis-sions calculations for hazardous air pollut-ants were missing and asked for an estimate

O’Kenno Loyal and lead-ing passer Jonathan Mc-Crary are both looking to pick up where they left off last season.

O’Kenno, a Colum-bia High School senior, rushed for over 1,400 yards with 15 touch-downs. He said he has been working hard during the offseason with his offensive line to improve his game.

“We’ve just been building team chem-istry, which is something I’m focusing on this year,” he said. “I’ve been working hard with my offensive line this summer because without them I wouldn’t be here.”

O’Kenno, one of the top running backs in the state, said he also has been in the weight room to gain more strength in his legs. He

versity of Georgia, Georgia Tech, the Univer-sity of Alabama and Ohio State.

Media Day also brought attention to the 21 players across the county who have ver-bally committed to Division I colleges.

Among them, Lithonia offensive lineman Joe Harris, considered the top offensive line prospect in the state. He announced that he is going to the University of South Carolina.

“South Carolina is a great place to go,” the senior said. “It’s a wonderful environment. They have great young talent and a great coaching staff.”

Stephenson has 11 of the 22 committed prospects and has the possibility of five more to commit in the near future.

Columbia, Tucker and Marist also have two commits each, and Martin Luther King Jr., Dunwoody and Stone Mountain have one each.

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3Community “I teach against this thing. This is the core of what I teach. This is damaging my life, my reputation, everything that I stand for.”

School cell towers not a done deal

Martial arts instructor indicted

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The Soul Project’s volunteers sort and pack tennis shoes donated at a July 16 shoe drive at the Gallery at South DeKalb.

Adrian Spellen

Lithonia tae kwon do instructor and Olympic athlete Adrian Spellen was in-

dicted on three counts of rape and aggravated child molestation on July 26.

The indictment ac-cuses him of having “carnal knowledge of” a 9-year-old girl between May 23 and June 3. It did not say where the

acts took place or give any details of the circumstances.

Spellen, 27, who owns Powerkicks Martial Arts on Miller Road, was arrested June 25 and released on a $100,000 bond

on July 7. He was set to attend a 2 p.m. pre-trial hearing on Tuesday when news of the indictment came. He did not return tele-phone calls before press time Thursday, but his attorney, Regina Matthews, said Spellen “absolutely denies the charges.”

“He has evidence to dispute the charges and wants to go forward with this as quickly as possible,” she said Wednesday.

On July 26, Spellen told WSB-TV that he wouldn’t do anything to hurt his students. “I teach against this thing,” he said. “This is the core of what I teach. This is damaging my life, my reputation everything that I stand for.”

Matthews said Spellen’s father, Bernard Spellen, died suddenly of a heart attack July 23 and the family was dealing with a lot.

T-Mobile USA may have the approval of the DeKalb School Board to operate cell towers at nine DeKalb schools, but the towers are far from being a done deal.

With its lease from the school system, the company still must get approval from the county to construct the towers.

Andrew Baker, DeKalb’s interim director of Planning and Sustain-ability, said Wednesday that all cell towers have to get approval from the county before they are constructed. “Per DeKalb County ordinances, telecom-munications towers and/or antennas are allowed in non-residential districts,” he said, adding that a Special Administrative Permit along with a “building permit” are required before the final approval is given.

Cell phone tower operators also must fulfill required setbacks and other screen-

ing related standards.Some of the nine schools, including MLK

Jr. High and Flat Rock, Princeton and Narvie J. Harris elementary schools, are in residen-tial areas that will trigger public hearing and input before the Community Councils and the DeKalb Board of Zoning Appeals.

The School Board approved the lease for T-Mobile to erect and operate cell towers at six elementary schools, two high schools and a comprehensive school at its July 11 meeting. Over the 30-year lease, the school system will make more than $2.3 million in rent, and each of the schools’ PTSAs will get a $25,000 one-time payment and an additional $25,000 each time T-Mobile co-locates other cell phone providers on the towers.

Most schools are in south DeKalb. Schools approved for towers include Margaret Harris Comprehensive; Briarlake, Jolly and Smoke Rise elementary; and Lakeside High. With July ending this weekend, Martin

Kumi knows that his Soul Project won’t make its goal of collecting 50,000 pairs of shoes to ship to Africa, but he is happy for the 15,000 pairs that have been donated by adults and children.

“So far we are 35,000 pairs short but we are still pushing,” he said.

Kumi said he has extended the shoe drive to the end of August and will ship everything he collects at that time.

His biggest haul came on July 16 at a drive at the Gallery at South DeKalb.

Kumi said DeKalb residents donated more than 4,000 pairs of shoes.

“The event was a huge success,” he said. “Kindly accept my heartfelt thanks for help-ing put a smile on someone’s face.”

On Aug. 6, Greater Travelers Rest Bap-tist Church, 4650 Flat Shoals Parkway in Decatur, is hosting a drive from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Aug. 13, he will be at the Mall at Stonecrest, 2929 Turner Hill Road off I-20

in Lithonia.Kumi, who is from Ghana, launched the

drive in March to collect lightly worn and new shoes for some of the poorest children and adults in Liberia.

Through the Soul Project International, he has collected and shipped more than 100,000 pairs of shoes to Ghana and Haiti with the help of DeKalb students, churches and individuals.

Kumi said that children in poor countries walk up to 10 miles to school barefoot and some die from diseases they contract from foot infections.

All sizes and types of shoes with flat heels are welcomed.

Donors also can drop shoes off weekdays during business hours at Inspiring Kids Academy, 5051 Snapfinger Woods Drive in Decatur.

Individuals and groups are needed as volunteers for the Soul Project drives.

For more information, visit http://soul

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Dear Editor:Please consider implementing a

local version of PolitiFact, Truth-O-Meter Pants on Fire and make Jay Cunningham its first recipient for DeKalb County.

Why? The quote Jay Cun-ningham gave your paper was a blatant lie. I am extremely disap-pointed that he would mislead the public on such an issue that affects our qual-ity of life particularly in Central and South DeKalb. Jay Cunning-ham and the Board of Education members who voted for these cell towers overlooked the harm this would cause our children.

Jay Cunningham was quoted in the July 16 issue of Cross Roads-News saying that he didn’t hear anything from the community

of these com-munities have little economic and polit ical power to mount organized resis-tance against it. In Georgia, seven of the 12 existing biomass incinerators are in counties where the African-American population far exceeds the state average, and six of the nine new incinerators being built are to be located in majority black counties.

The 20-year contract awarded to Green Energy Partners LLC, which was approved 7-0 by the Board of Commissioners, should be challenged in court to stop its completion. The commissioners completely ignored the wishes

By Neville Anderson

I have participated for over a year now in a public debate that at times has both amazed and frustrated me because of repeated misinformation communicated to the public about the bio-mass gasifica-tion plant.

Let me give some facts on our project:

The fuel we are using is woodchips that come from the fallen limbs and yard trimmings collected from the trees and bushes in DeKalb County, chipped and distributed to resi-dents as mulch and used all over the county.

Our process does not “burn” the wood but merely heats it at a high temperature that then causes

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The commissioners completely ignored the wishes of the residents of Lithonia and DeKalb County and approved this dangerous project.

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Board had health information when it voted for towers

Biomass gasification debate rife with misinformation

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By Cynthia McKinney

As a resident of DeKalb County, I am appalled by the decision of the Board of Commissioners to approve yet another threat to the health and well-being of DeKalb County residents.

This county already suffers from far too many landfills and waste disposal dumps.

I harbor fond memories of my most successful town hall meeting ever where residents and I worked together to shut down an existing landfill and to fight any addi-tional landfills planned for DeKalb County.

Locating hazardous waste dis-posal facilities, landfills, and bio-mass facilities in minority commu-nities amounts to environmental racism and assumes that residents

of the residents of Lithonia and DeKalb County and approved this dangerous project.

Green Energy Partners claims that this gasification plant will create 25 jobs, but it threatens the health and well-being of far more than 25 residents.

In my research I find study after study that warns of the dangers of airborne particulate matter (PM) that will be released by this plant along with increased levels of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide.

The results of a 2008 study by Georgia State University, which ad-dressed socio-demographic factors associated with hospitalizations for childhood asthma among children who reside in DeKalb County, de-termined that our children bear an unequal burden of asthma in the southern portion of the county.

wAdditionally, where is all the wood that this plant requires going to come from? Is DeKalb County now in the logging business? Are our trees also threatened along with our residents and children?

There is also the issue of trans-parency and the community’s right to know what is scheduled for dis-cussion at commission meetings.

I stand with DeKalb County residents and activists against the construction of this plant in our backyard. I have spent much of my political career fighting for the environment and against this sort of environmental racism that has happened much too often in DeKalb County.

Cynthia McKinney is a former representative of the 4th U.S. Con-gressional District, which includes portions of DeKalb County.

the wood to break down into wood gas. At the turn of the previous century, wood gas was used to provide gas to cars and provide fuel to street lamps in most major cities. We generate wood gas that is trapped and cleaned in our process to remove tars and other particles to produce a natural gas which is used to generate electricity.

We are not engaging in racism. There have been 20 permits issued in the state of Georgia and 180 permits issued in the South and Northeast in all types of commu-nities. Presently there is a gasifica-tion plant in Conyers, along State Route 138, that has been operating for the past three years, without any complaints from citizens of the city of Lithonia.

There is a wood chip gasifica-tion plant in downtown Columbia – at the University of South Caro-lina, in the middle of campus, less than 100 yards from a dorm and

approximately one mile from the South Carolina state Capitol build-ing – which has been operating for four years. There is currently a plant operating in Forsyth County.

Some members of the commu-nity who opposed the plant have been relying on a report authored by a political organization named the Blue Ridge Environmental De-fense League. This same report on page 47 states that while they ad-vocate other management methods for the handling of biomass there is ZERO tons (0.0000) Human Health Carcinogens produced in gasification and negative (-1) ton of Human Health Toxins produced by gasification. The Blue Ridge Defense league has lobbied against President Obama’s environmental policies.

Three 767’s landing and taking off per day at Hartfield Jackson Airport – three planes – will send more emissions into the air than

our plant on any given day. To date there have been no complaints of ill health from the local community as a result of emissions from the gas-ification plant currently operating in Conyers.

An independent consultant has determined that this plant will cre-ate 500 construction jobs while the plant is being built. We will employ 28 full-time positions at the plant with another 78 full-time positions created in the community to service the plant.

We have already met with Workforce DeKalb and with the local commissioners we will plan a job fair to make sure local DeKalb County residents are first in line for these jobs. We have requested to meet with members of CHASE on several occasions to have our meeting request ignored.

Neville A. Anderson is the presi-dent and CEO of Athens-based Green Energy Partners-Dekalb, LLC.

against cell towers on our school grounds. There is never a statement that is further from the truth.

On June 6, 2011, we emailed the entire DeKalb Board of Educa-tion information that detailed the fact that cell towers would increase heath risks and decrease property value. We also sent the email to our local state representatives in the House and Senate.

To make sure no one would have an excuse on this issue, we hand-delivered a package containing a DVD with all the information and research to include a memorandum stating our position on the issue of cell towers on school grounds. At least two parents spoke at the June 6, 2011, Board of Education meet-ing opposing the cell towers.

We went to Cobb County and photographed six local schools with cell towers that T-Mobile was responsible for constructing. We wanted to educate our local school

board with present day pictures to demonstrate how the cell tow-ers were placed right next to open playgrounds and stadiums where children play.

We researched the fact that the parents in Cobb County were ada-mantly against cell towers on their school grounds to the point that they sued the school district and tried to recall one of the members of the board. The same school board member later forced the taxpayers to pay for his lawyer’s fees when the recall failed.

We produced two PowerPoint presentations and videos and placed the videos on YouTube titled, “DeKalb Parents Against Cell Towers.” Once again, every piece of this information was placed on a DVD that was hand-delivered to the entire DeKalb Board of Educa-tion, which includes Jay Cunning-ham.

We also presented data to mo-

tivate our local Board of Education to implement a solution that would deliver over $30 million dollars to our school system.

We requested our local school board join our state representatives to put up a united front to stop the removal of over $100 million dol-lars from our school system by the state of Georgia. We questioned the rationale of seeking $30,000 from cell towers which cause increased health risks and decrease property value vs. $30 million dollars from $100 million dollars our state takes from DeKalb to redistribute to other school systems.

I want to inform the employers of this government (taxpayers and voters) that their employee (Jay Cunningham) told a bald-faced lie and needs to be publicly cor-rected.

Viola Davis is CEO and founder of the Stone Mountain-based Un-happy Taxpayer & Voter.

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5By Jennifer Ffrench Parker

Growing a garden can have unexpected consequences.

Just ask Marshall Honeywood, an elder at First Afrikan Presbyterian.

In the past month or so, she has seen grown men and women devolve into child-like glee while watching the yellow bell-like blooms of a zucchini plant transform into

a small fruit, then grow large.

“To see adults who had never grown anything before get as excited as a child, that has been the biggest kick for me,” she said.

Ho n e y wo o d , t h e church’s property com-

missioner who coordinates the Lithonia church’s new Community Eden Garden, said that each Wednesday 20 adults and children from the church and the community show up for gardening classes and to work in the 68-by-60-foot plot on the grounds of the church on Salem Road.

Ninety percent of them are new garden-ers, and Honeywood said their excitement is infectious.

“These adults had never planted food before,” she said. “They had never picked a squash, never picked green beans. They worry about whether they will hurt the plant when they harvest it.”

In gardening classes, the volunteers also learn about basic gardening, composting and organic gardening.

Taking the lead on the garden was a natural for Honeywood. The daughter of a sharecropper said gardening always has been a part of her life.

“I grew up on a farm in the small town of Arlington, Tenn.,” she said. “I grow vegetables every year. Even when I lived in apartments, I

grew vegetables in a pot or had a patio garden.”

The Rev. Mark Lomax, the church’s pastor, said that the church began talking about the garden last year as they saw the economy and the country shifting deeper into reces-sion and the nation being

bombarded with news of the growing obesity epidemic and all the health issues arising from poor diets.

“Looking at our children, a lot of them never get fresh food,” he said. “It’s McDon-ald’s, Wendy’s and Chuck E. Cheese. Our people are having fewer options.”

Lomax said they thought it was a good idea to return to gardening.

“We have forgotten what it was like to garden and grow our own food,” he said. “Our ancestors planted gardens, shared produce, and canned and preserved food for later use. As a first step, we are teaching people how to garden again.”

The garden is a project of the church’s Center for Afrikan Biblical Studies.

Dr. Itihari Toure, the center’s director,

Community “Looking at our children, a lot of them never get fresh food. It’s McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Chuck E. Cheese.”

Church hosting Aug. 6 farmers market

Community garden yields more than a healthy harvest

Produce will be available from Eden Garden, members’ gardens, black farmers and Wonderland Gardens.

Children and adults attend gardening classes at First Afrikan Presbyterian in Lithonia, sharing in the work and the harvest.

M. Honeywood

said the garden grew out of conversations about sustainable living host-ed by its Creation Care Team.

“People expressed interest in sustaining themselves by growing their own food,” she said. “They were becoming more aware of the value of consuming fresh produce instead of canned items.”

There will be honky-tonk blues, har-monica and guitar music, and musical art-ist Kevin Spears will showcase his African “thumb piano” or kalimba.

The church is at 5197 Salem Road in Lithonia. For more information or vendor applications for farmers and craftspeople, visit www.firstafrikanchurch.org or call 770-981-2601.

Fresh fruits and veg-etables will be available at an Aug. 6 farmers market on the campus of First Afrikan Presbyterian Church.

The Lithonia church is hosting a number of black farmers and Wonderland Gardens for the 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. farmers market.

Organically grown pro-duce also will be available from the church’s Commu-nity Eden Garden and from church members who have backyard gardens.

A chef will demonstrate healthy ways to cook vegetables, and there will be fried fish and a watermelon truck.

Health screenings and information about heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses that disproportionately affect African-Americans’ health will be avail-able.

Vendors will sell creative crafts and wares.

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From a $2,200 grant from the DeKalb Board of Health, the center held gardening classes at the church and the Austin Drive Senior Center and launched the Community Eden Garden.

When the call for volunteers went out at First Afrikan, 50 people signed up. In February, they began clearing the land and preparing it for planting.

As they cleared the plot of small trees and shrubs, Honeywood said they could see that the soil was good and would be perfect for

their organic garden. In June they planted zucchini, squash,

okra, cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans, eggplant, a variety of peppers, and water-melon. They also planted a herb garden with oregano, basil, rosemary, thyme and stevia.

The yield has been bountiful. The first fruits – a basket full of zucchini and squash – were brought into the church on June 12.

Half of the produce goes to the volunteers who work in the garden weekly. The rest is given away at the church. Last week, the church’s Caribbean Ministry had a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden.

Lomax said that everything they thought would happen with the garden did.

“New relationships are being formed,” he said. “Working together in the garden, people are getting to know people they didn’t know before, and people are loving the food com-ing out of the garden.”

Toure said they also have strengthened the relevance of gardening and physical activity, provided opportunities for families to consume more vegetables, and built new partnerships with Wonderland Gardens and black farmers who will participate in an Aug. 6 farmers market on the church’s grounds at 5197 Salem Road in Lithonia.

“We have created something good in the community,” she said. “We have demon-strated the successful application of Chris-tian principle to community development and are engaging in physical activity that is helping our body and modeling the value of physical labor for our children.”

With the great success they are having, the church already is looking toward next year.

“We had such a good harvest this year and so many people are interested in gardening. Next year, we are going to double the size,” Honeywood said.

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6 FinanCe “My estimate shows that facility wide [greenhouse gas] emissions are greater than 128,000 tons per year.”

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EPD highlighted 15 deficiencies, sought detailed description of project

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of toxic air pollutants emissions from each piece of equipment at the facility.

He also wants emissions estimates and supporting documentation from the green-house gases for each piece of equipment in tons per year of carbon dioxide equivalent.

to sell to Georgia Power. The plant has divided the community

into camps. On one hand are residents who say it will bring jobs, and on the other side are those who express concerns over potential harm to their health.

CHASE says it and the two residents were forced to sue because the Board of Commis-sioners ignored the citizens’ concerns and ap-proved the plant despite a litany of evidence and warnings from public and environmen-tal health experts that the plant would spew tons of pollution into the air.

“If this plant is allowed to be built, tons of fine particulate matter will enter the tiny air sacs in the lungs and cause rampant re-spiratory and heart disease throughout the region,” Morehouse physician Darren Harper said at a press conference announcing the lawsuit.

“Please note that if the GHG emissions from the entire facility are greater than 100,000 tons per year, then the facility will be subject to this regulation,” he said. “My esti-mate shows that facility wide GHG emissions are greater than 128,000 tons per year.”

Shaikh also wanted “a very detailed de-scription of this wood gasification project,

including each piece of equipment men-tioned in the permit application.”

Green Energy will not be able to build the plant without EPD’s approval.

The commissioners’ approval of the plant followed a July 13, 2010, contract the county signed to sell 40,000 tons of wood chips annually to Green Energy Partners for $200,000 a year.

The citizens accused the board of en-gaging in contract zoning, which is illegal in Georgia, and their lawsuit is asking the judge to declare the rezoning decision “to be a manifest abuse of the zoning power and therefore illegal and void.”

Athens-based Green Energy Partners can terminate the contract with the county within 24 months if it does not secure all necessary permits and approvals to build the plant and generate electricity, which it plans

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Bronze medals went to Russell Bubb, Earl McFarland and Stephen Kimani in the category of Tech Prep Showcase Industrial and Engineering Technology.

Larry Teems, the college’s executive vice president, said the school is very proud of the students.

“They have risen to meet the challenge of competing on a national scale,” Teems said. “This was a valuable learning experience and has added to the overall educational experience.”

SkillsUSA serves more than 307,000 high school and college students nationally.

After a dozen years on the campus of DeKalb Medi-cal at Hillandale, Dr. Eddie L. Whitehead has new of-fices.

Whitehead relocated his Georgia Internal Medicine Care Associates to Tucker and opened in a new larger suite on Montreal Road on June 6.

On July 23, he hosted an open house for patients and friends and manned the grill, serving up his signature smoked turkey to guests.

During a tour of the facility, Janet Turner, the practice’s customer service manager, showed off the beautifully decorated patient rooms and the office’s on-site lab.

“It’s larger and the layout is better,” she said.

Bessie Dunton, a 20-year patient of Whitehead, loved the new digs.

“I done fell in love the lab,” Dunton said. “It’s nice and roomy.”

Dunton, who lives in Decatur, says the office, which overlooks I-285, said is also very convenient for her.

“I just get off the interstate and hang a right,” she said.

Whitehead has been in private practice in DeKalb County since 1992. Before locat-ing at DeKalb Medical, he was located on Snapfinger Woods Drive.

He is still affiliated with DeKalb Medi-cal.

Georgia Internal Medicine is at 1350 Montreal Road East, No. 290, in Tucker. For more information, contact ewhiteheadmd@gimca.com or call 770-593-2382.

Twenty-two DeKalb Technical Col-lege students won medals in five of seven categories at the 47th annual National Leadership and SkillsUSA Conference in Kansas City, Mo., on June 18-24.

Collectively, the college took home two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal.

DeKalb Tech’s Director of Campus Life Christine Harden said the students won 16 out 34 medals, more than any other technical college in Georgia.

Gold medals were won in the catego-ries of Entrepreneurship and Tech Prep Showcase Transportation, Management and Technology.

The students who competed in Entre-preneurship were Grant Martin, Patrick McDaniel, Michael Powder and Cotina Howard. Students who competed in Tech Prep Showcase Transportation, Manage-ment and Technology were James Stud-away, Shaun Belcher and Lanier Bradley.

Silver medals were given in the catego-ries of Tech Prep Showcase Health Services and Outstanding Chapter. Desireee Paschal represented DeKalb Tech in Outstanding Chapter, and Anita Alford, Natasha Perry and Olga Dixon competed in Tech Prep Showcase Health Services.

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The Mall at Stonecrest is losing its only book store in the wake of Borders bank-ruptcy.

The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain is go-ing out of business after 40 years of selling books. It announced July 18 that it is closing all of its 399 bookstores as it liquidates under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code.

The Stonecrest store was one of 10 in Georgia.

On Saturday, bargain hunters were look-ing for deals at the Stonecrest store where the liquidation sales ranged from 10 to 40 percent.

Borders launched the concept of a big box bookstore in 1971 but the company, which has 10,700 employees, had not turned a profit since 2006.

In a statement to its 1.8 million custom-ers, Borders Group President Mike Edwards

said they fought vigilantly to save the com-pany.

“We were all working hard toward a dif-ferent outcome, but the headwinds we have been facing for quite some time, including the rapidly changing book industry, eReader revolution, and turbulent economy, have brought us to where we are now,” he said.

Borders filed for bankruptcy protection in February.

Donald Beiler, the Mall at Stonecrest marketing director said they hate to see Borders go.

“We hosted a lot of great events there,” he said.

Borders departure will leave a 18,000 square-foot vacancy at the mall.

Liquidators could generate up to $284 million from selling off the assets.

At its peak in 2003, Borders operated

Planners will be showcasing the final version of the Wesley Chapel LCI at an Aug. 1 open house at the Porter Sanford Performing Arts Center.

During the 6:30 to 8 p.m. meeting, residents can view the plan and comment on the recommendations for the Wesley Chapel Livable Centers Initiative.

Sidney Douse, the DeKalb planner who helped coordinate the study, said that there will be a brief PowerPoint on the study and maps and concept plans on display during the open house. Planners will be available to answer questions.

The Atlanta Regional Commission awarded the $80,000 LCI grant to study the hard-hit Wesley Chapel corridor in February last year.

In the last decade, the corridor has lost a number of big box retailers and is populated with thousands of square feet of vacant retail, commercial and restau-rant space.

The LCI is seeking to promote economic development and job creation, provide con-nections to proposed transit, appropriate de-velopment and redevelopment of the Wesley Chapel Activity Center, increase diversity of housing options, and encourage mixed-use development.

Among the areas covered by the plan are the Wesley Chapel/I-20 interchange, Wesley Chapel/Rainbow Drive intersection, Wesley Chapel/Covington Highway intersection, Southwest DeKalb High School, and the Omega World Center.

Douse said that the plan will be open for comment for a limited time after the open house.

The DeKalb Board of Commissioners is expected to approve it before the end of the year.

The center is at 3181 Rainbow Drive in Decatur. For more information, contact Jessica Guinn at jguinn@cfatl.com or 404-684-7031.

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Free health screenings, haircuts, beauty salon services and food will be available to the homeless at New Life Community Ministries’ annual Community Impact Day on July 30.

Hundreds of walkers and runners will meander through White Oak Hills and Belvedere communities for Saint Philip AME’s annual 5K races. The event includes a wellness festival.

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Stroke walk/run set for Aug. 6

New Life to impact homeless

Wellness Nearly 200 runners and walkers participated in the first race, which honors Saint Philip’s retired pastor, the Rev. George Moore Sr.

Salmonella prompts papaya recall

Sarcoidosis support meets monthlySarcoidosis patients and their

family members can receive sup-port and information at a free monthly meeting at Saint Philip AME Church in Atlanta.

Sarcoidosis is a chronic disease of unknown cause that affects the lungs, liver, lymph glands and sali-vary glands.

Its victims include everyone from children to the elderly.

Dr. Catherine Roberts, who sponsors the support group, said the disease affects African-Americans more often and more severely than other races.

“Their cases are usually severe and life-

threatening,” she said.Sarcoidosis is not contagious

but it occurs more commonly in some families, and there appears to be a genetic disposition to develop the disease.

The support group, which be-gan in March, meets on the third Sunday monthly at 1:45 p.m. in the Art Room of the Family Life Center

at Saint Philip. Saint Philip AME is at 240 Candler

Road. For more information, visit www.catrobicompany.com or contact Dr. Cath-erine Roberts at c_roberts31@msn.com or 678-667-0774.

Georgia public health officials are moni-toring a salmonella outbreak associated with papayas from a Texas company.

Eight salmonella cases have been report-ed in Georgia, including one that required hospitalization.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat papayas from Agromod Produce Inc., which distributes the following four brands of papayas, whole and unprocessed: Yaya, Blondie, Mañanita and Tastylicious. The FDA posted a recall on July 23 after detecting Salmonella Agona in two papaya samples from the McAllen, Texas, firm.

No deaths have been reported.The Georgia Department of Public

Health is working with the state Department of Agriculture and the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the prod-uct recall in Georgia.

DPH’s Epidemiology Section is monitor-ing illness data to identify cases in the state.

County environmental health specialists also are informing restaurants and other food service establishments about the recall, and they are monitoring for the product during routine inspections of the establishments.

As of last week, there were 97 cases in Georgia and 22 other states.

Most people infected with salmonella develop diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts four to seven days, and most people recover without treatment. However, some individuals may require hospitalization from severe diarrhea. The elderly, infants and those with impaired immune systems are more likely to become severely ill from salmonella infection.

Consumers who think they may have become ill from eating papayas should consult health care providers. For more information, call Agromod Produce at 1-800-385-7658 or visit www.pbga.org.

More than 2,500 are expected to attend New Life Community Ministries’ 16th an-nual Community Impact Day on July 30 in Decatur.

The annual event centers special atten-tion on the homeless and offers them food, clothing, health screenings, haircuts and beauty salon services and spiritual help.

The 9 a.m.-to-2 p.m. event on the grounds of New Life Community Center on Flat Shoals Road is free to attend.

Last year, more than a dozen outreach organizations partnered with the church to help more than 600 families.

Health screenings will be offered by the Center for Black Women’s Health, the Avon

Runners and walkers will traverse the historic White Oak Hills and Bel-vedere communities on Aug. 6 during Saint Phil-ip AME’s annual Stroke Awareness 5K Run/Walk and Wellness Festival.

The 5K, which is in its second year, kicks off at 8 a.m. at the church at the intersection of Can-dler Road and Memorial Drive. Registration and warm-up for the race begin at 7:45 a.m. on the Richard Allen Drive side of the Saint Philip campus.

Last year, nearly 200 runners and walkers participated in the first race, which honors Saint Philip’s retired pastor, the Rev. George Moore Sr.

Proceeds from this year’s race will be do-nated to the American Stroke Association.

Runners can register at www.active.com.

Registration is $15 before July 31 and

$20 after. It includes a free T-shirt at the completion of the race.

Top runners will re-ceive medals.

The run/walk and well-ness festival are a project of Saint Philip’s Health Ministry. The Wellness Festival, which is in its seventh year, begins at 8 a.m. in the church’s Family Life and Administration Center, halls B and C, and runs until 11 a.m.

It will focus on high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and the need for a continued lifetime focus

on health. Participants of all ages can benefit from the cooking classes, health-related ven-dors, and fitness demonstrations.

Volunteers also are needed for the race.Saint Philip AME Church is at 240

Candler Road S.E. in Atlanta, at the corner of Candler and Memorial Drive. For more information, contact Cathy Harper-Hogan at drchhogan@yahoo.com.

Foundation (breast exams), Atlanta Black Nurses, DIC Northside, Babies Can’t Wait, Georgia Smile Center, East Point Medical Center, Coastal Research Associates (eye exams and screenings), Healthy Hearts for Children, Grady Rape Crisis Center, Kaiser Permanente Health Care (blood pressure screenings), Medicare A B C D’s, Northwest Chiropractor, and Roberts Family Dental, among others.

Community Impact Day is the culmi-nation of a week of events that included a two-day “Teen-Fest” workshop and a job fair.

New Life Community Center is at 3592 Flat Shoals Road. Call 770-322-6262.

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10Kathern Thomas, senior pastor of Wor-

shippers Interceding for Excellence Church, and elder Alicia Cardwell-Brown will host a new Internet TV show, “Called to Be a D.I.V.A.”

The show, which be-gins on Aug. 5, will air on www.fabulousand lovingit.com from 7 to 7:30 p.m.

“Cal led to Be a D.I.V.A.” – Divine, In-spirational, Victorious, Anointed – is a pro-gram that will encourage women and teach them to use their gifts for the Kingdom of God.

Thomas said she and Cardwell-Brown want to advance the kingdom by empowering women with the Word of God.

“We want the women to know when you accept Christ as your savior, you are divine, inspirational, victorious and anointed,” she said. “The program will speak to all women, but we will emphasize the difference in a woman’s life when she has Christ.”

For more information, call 404-587-2751 or visit www.calledtobeadiva.com.

scene “It is both a ceremony of reconciliation and recommitment to the work and institution building.”

Ancestral Walk celebrates legacy of ex-slaves

Gala honors to honor Fitten’s four decade of service

Singers needed for Sacred Harp

‘D.I.V.A.’ is Web show for women

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Members of First Afrikan Presbyterian Church will walk in the footsteps of enslaved Africans who farmed the land and worked as house servants on the Lyons plantation in Lithonia.

Sarah Fitten

Beginners and seasoned vocalists can join in Sacred Harp singing on Aug. 4 at Emory Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.

The monthly program, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Building, features early American hymns sung in a powerful, exuberant style as seen in “Awake My Soul.” Instruction is provided.

Shape note music is a 200-year-old, uniquely American style of hymn singing, also known as Sacred Harp, after the title of the best-known shape note tune book.

Emory Presbyterian is at 1886 N. Decatur Road. For more information, visit www.at lantasacredharp.org or call 404-892-6836.

After 41 years of service to the Fulton Atlanta Community Ac-tion Authority, Sarah Fitten has retired, and on July 30, her col-leagues, friends and supporters will celebrate her at a gala at the Lou Walker Center at 7 p.m.

Fitten, the authority’s assis-tant director of services, retired in June. During her tenure, she was a zealous voice for children, seniors,

and the poor and disadvantaged, and she worked effectively for child care, after-school programs, elderly care and poverty relief initiatives.

She persuaded residents to be-come informed citizens, to register to vote, and to attend meetings she arranged with their elected and appointed leaders. She was also instrumental in getting the elected

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Hospital clinic in the Kirkwood area of DeKalb County and push for the extension of MARTA rail on Atlanta’s east side.

Joyce Dorsey, the authority’s executive director, calls Fitten a great woman.

“I really don’t know how we are going to make it without her,” she said. “She is deserv-ing of all her honors.”

For more information, contact Tony Phillips at ttonykp@usa.com or call 404-373-6036.

The Lyons house in Lithonia will get a visit from members of First Afrikan Pres-byterian Church on Aug. 6.

Members of the Afrocentric church will gather at 8:30 a.m. at the “main house” of the historic 48-acre Lyons plantation to take a spiritual walk in the footsteps of the enslaved Africans who farmed the land and worked as house servants. From there participants will walk to nearby Flat Rock community to celebrate their sharecropper descendants.

The house is located on Lyons Road, off Browns Mill Road in Lithonia. The Lyons Farm is named for the family who owned it from 1827 to 2003. Slave quarters are still intact on the property, evidence that slaves once worked and lived there.

Dr. Itihari Toure, director of the church’s Center for Afrikan Biblical Stud-ies, said the Ancestral Walk is more than a community walk in remembrance.

“It is both a ceremony of reconciliation and recommitment to the work and insti-tution building begun by those who, de-spite insurmountable odds, built churches, schools and stores,” she said.

The walk will begin at the quarters of the enslaved Africans who worked as the house servants for the Lyons family.

“The ceremony’s opening will include song, African dance and drum to call on those who came before us to inspire us,” Toure said. “The opening will acknowl-edge the sacredness of the earth and how African-descended enslaved people rec-ognized this even if there were plantation owners who only saw them as mules and horses.”

Decatur-based Wonderland Community Gardens has been rehabilitating the farm, which was purchased by DeKalb County for its Watershed Management Program as part of the buffer for the Pole Creek wastewater treatment plant. It is growing vegetables there.

From the Lyons house, the Ancestral Walk will continue to Flat Rock to celebrate the ingenuity, determination and confidence of the Flat Rock families who maintained farms,

a school, store and church in the face of the Klan, which resented their presence and their possession of land as people of color.

Toure said the Ancestral Walk is free and open to the public.

After the walk, the church is hosting black farmers and Wonderland Gardens at a farmers market on its grounds at 5197 Salem Road in Lithonia.

For more information, visit www.first afrikanchurch.org or call 770-981-2601.

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11Artist Bill Leavell has joined the Smart Inc. program at Stone

Mountain Arts Incubator.Leavell’s work can be seen in Center Town Gallery at 951-A

Main St., where he joins Debbie Thigpen of Sailor Studio and Tracie Hawkins of T Lee Art & Design.

Leavell, who is the former director of the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Cen-ter, has worked as an independent graphic designer and has been part of Belk Depart-ment Store’s visual merchandising team.

Smart Inc., which is modeled after several successful “arts incuba-tors,” chooses its artists through a rigorous jury process.

Artist work in their studios from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday,

helping to populate and attract art lovers to the city’s historic downtown commercial district.

Since its launch last October, several new businesses have moved to Stone Mountain, citing the arts incubator as one of the things that attracted them.

Art Strolls, a free event with wine, food and music held quarterly, lure art lovers to enjoy the Smart Inc. galleries and five galleries in ART Station. The next Art Stroll will be on Aug. 27 from 7 to 9 p.m.

The Stone Mountain Arts Incubator is funded by a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is administered by ART Station Contemporary Arts Center through a contract with the city of Stone Mountain.

For more information, call ART Station at 770-469-1105 or visit www.artstation.org.

scene “It’s been stressful getting things done and bringing programs in. I’m happy to see it finally open.”

Exchange Rec Center opens with fanfare

Chefs spice up farmers market

Graphic artist joins Stone Mountain art incubator

Fresh vegetables and fruits, delicious pastries, and cooking demonstrations are some of the activities on tap this week at the East Metro Farmers Market at the Mall at Stonecrest.

The market sets up 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday in the mall’s parking lot near Borders.

Its farm-fresh vegetables are organically grown by local farmers. Seasonal selections include varieties of greens from bok choi to collards and heirloom tomatoes to fall melons.

The market also features vendors with handmade soap and one-of-a kind jewelry.

Last week, vegan-vegetarian chef Kemi

Bennings from Food for Thought served up organic-grown squash sautéed with red onion and heirloom tomatoes with liquid amino. Yummy.

This week, Kwietha Bolden, a fitness specialist/coach/trainer and personal chef, will be demonstrating healthy meal prepa-ration.

The chef ’s demonstration begins at 11:30 a.m.

A raffle of gifts from vendors is done after each chef demo.

This week’s featured vendor is Imani’s Treasures. Her one-of-a-kind jewelry is from the African Diaspora to the East Metro Farm-ers Market.

Artist Bill Leavell is former director of the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center.

Chef Kemi Bennings prepared an organic-grown squash dish with red onion and heirloom tomatoes at the East Metro Farmers Market at Stonecrest.

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By Carla Parker

Decatur residents along the Columbia Drive corridor turned out in droves on July 25 for the grand opening of the Exchange Recreation Center.

Children, youth, senior citizens, community leaders and public officials packed the gymna-sium of the $6.3 million recreation center for speeches and performances by the Glenwood Hills Cheerleading Squad, Leatha’s Soul Line Dancing Class, and Southwest DeKalb High School violinist DuMarkus Davis.

Jerri Brown of Decatur said she and her six kids have been waiting for the center to officially open.

“It’s a decent place for my kids to go during this hot weather,” she said. “A closed environment where I know the area is safe.”

The 31,000-square-foot center, which was funded by the 2006 Parks Bond Fund, took a year to build from the ground breaking in May 2010. It had its soft opening on May 31 with a summer camp for 160 children.

Nicholas Clark, the center’s director, said he is excited

and relieved to see the center finally open.“It’s like I can breathe now,” he said. “It’s

been stressful getting things done and bringing programs in. I’m happy to see it finally open.”

The two-story building can house 946 people. It includes a suspended indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness room and computer lab, and aerobics, game, activity and multipur-pose rooms.

Clark said the center will have numerous programs for people of all ages, including computer classes and line dancing for seniors; karate, hip-hop, jazz, tap, ballet and year-round cheerleading for youth; and lifestyle classes.

“We have classes catered to everyone,” Clark said.Maurice Rochester, the Rainbow Estates Civic As-

sociation chairman, called the center a great place for kids and seniors.

“I know the seniors are excited about the walking trail,” Rochester said. “It’s something for the kids to do and keep them out of trouble.”

The Exchange Recreation Center is at 2771 Columbia Drive. For more information, call 404-687-3430.

Nicholas Clark

“It’s a decent place for my kids to go during this hot weather,” she said. “A closed

environment where I know the

area is safe.” Jerri Brown, Decatur

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The class that marched on July 16 was the final graduating class under the DeKalb Technical College name.

The Youth Leadership Academy graduated its first class with 11 students from DeKalb schools.

Free school supplies, music, food and fun will be on tap at the fourth annual DeKalb Family Fun Day on Aug. 7 in Lithonia.

The free event, which is hosted by Com-missioner Lee May and Project A.R.M., takes place 3 to 8 p.m. at the Bransby Outdoor YMCA, 1185 Rock Chapel Road.

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Youth Vide will give 1,500 book bags stuffed with school supplies to all grade students.

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Nearly 400 DeKalb leaders, students and parents gathered for the second annual Youth Empowerment Breakfast on July 9 at the Decatur Hotel and Conference Center.

The theme was “Releasing the Power Within … Accepting the Charge!”

Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton established the Youth Leadership Academy in 2008 as a holistic approach to community development focusing on families and their children. “We’re working together to improve public safety and prepare our students for

success,” she said.This year, the program graduated its

first class with 11 students from DeKalb County high schools.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis offered a spirited keynote address, recalling his experience as a Freedom Rider in the 1960s.

“I got in the way during the civil rights movement, but it was always on the side of right,” Lewis said. “Every one of you also has an opportunity to get in the way and reshape the world we live in.”

Schools can learn how to create policies that will support healthy activity from a new publication, “Safe Routes to School Local Policy Guide.”

The guide, published by the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, is designed to help local communities and schools cre-ate, enact and implement policies that will support active and healthy community environments. It also encourages safe walk-ing and bicycling and physical activity by children through a “Health in All Policies” approach.

The Local Policy Guide highlights strat-egies to advance policy change and cov-ers more than 20 policy change examples including regional transportation plans, complete streets, fine-based mechanisms, school bonds, crossing guards, health impact assessments, joint-use agreements, speed

limits and more. Deb Hubsmith, the Safe Routes to School

National Partnership’s director, said the group is excited to bring the guide to the public.

“We kept hearing that communities and schools need more examples of how to enact policy changes and develop new funding streams that will create healthy environments for children,” Hubsmith said.

The guide was compiled with the help of more than a dozen leaders throughout the country who provided success stories and examples of local policy wins.

The Safe Routes to School National Partnership plans to continue to catalog and publicize policy wins that promote Safe Routes to School.

For more information, contact Dave Cowan at dave@saferoutespartnership.org.

Six hundred students earned diplomas and asso-ciate degrees from DeKalb Technical College at its 48th annual graduation ceremony on July 16.

Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges president, delivered the commencement address and emphasized continu-ous learning and mentor-ship as well as the importance of community involvement and civic engagement through the practice of giving back to the graduates.

“Learning is a lifelong phenomenon, so always continue to learn something new,” she said. “Pass on the lessons you learn. Take what you’ve learned with pride, and make

this world a better place.”The class was the final graduating class

under the DeKalb Technical College name. The college is changing its name to Georgia Piedmont Technical College.

For more information, visit www.de kalbtech.edu.

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13State Rep. Billy Mitchell wants cheating

school administrators and teachers who got bonuses on their results to pay back the funds.

Mitchell, who repre-sents House District 88 in Stone Mountain, has in-troduced legislation in the Georgia House that would require educators guilty of CRCT cheating to return bonuses and incentive pay that they received to their local school system.

The proposed law comes in the wake of cheating scandals that have rocked the Atlanta Public School System and DeKalb County Schools.

In his announcement of the legislation on July 18, Mitchell said it’s not uncommon for administrators or teachers to receive bo-nuses or other pay incentives based on their students’ achievement levels on the CRCT.

“This legislation simply calls for the re-turn of any funds to the school system that were paid to any administrator or teacher who admits to or is found guilty of cheating or causing the cheating on any standardized test,” he said. “By passing this legislation, Georgians will be able to rest assured that those relative few bad actors would not be unjustly enriched, while their students are placed in peril.”

Mitchell’s legislation would affect teach-ers and other certified professional person-nel whose salary increase or bonus was based in whole, or in part, on an evaluation that included student assessment results or

YouthLegislation targets cheating

“The ill-gotten fruits of cheating should be returned to Georgia’s children.” DEKALB COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

ESEA Public School Choice Program

Open Enrollment Dates

Administrative and Instructional Complex Computer Labs M102 and M1051701 Mountain Industrial Blvd.

Stone Mountain, GA 30083

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.(Monday – Friday)

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July 22, 2011 – August 4, 2011

v Parents/guardians with an Existing ePortal AccountIf you already have an existing ePortal account, then registration for ESEA Public School Choice is simple. Log on to your existing ePortal account, select ESEA Home under the School Choice tab, then click the link to complete an online ESEA Public School Choice application during the open enrollment period of Friday, July 22 – Thursday, August 4, 2011.

v Parents/guardians of students NEW to DeKalb County SchoolsParent(s) new to DeKalb County Schools should register their child at the home school if he/she is not already registered, prior to submitting an ESEA Public School Choice Transfer Application form.

Onsite AssistanceParents new to the district who have completed the student registration process at the home school and current DCSS parents may visit onsite for assistance at the DeKalb County School System, 1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd., Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083, Computer Labs M102 and M105.

Mail in ApplicationsParents new to the district who have completed the student registration process at the home school and current DCSS parents may complete an ESEA Public School Choice Transfer Application form and return it via US mail during the open enrollment period of July 22 – August 4, 2011. Applications should be mailed to:

v Parents/guardians without an ePortal AccountTo obtain an ePortal account, you must apply online and be approved by the home school. The approval process may take up to 48 hours. To apply visit the DeKalb County School System website at www.dekalb.k12.ga.us, under the Community tab, select ePortal/PASS and complete the registration process. Please note that your child must be a registered DeKalb County student and you will also need to know the following information:

■ First & Last Name of the Student■ Seven-digit Student Number■ Student Date of Birth■ Georgia Testing Identification (GTID) Number

DeKalb County School System Office of School Improvement

Attn: ESEA Public School Choice Division1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd. Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083

The “eligible” schools listed below are identified as “Needs Improvement”. The students enrolled in these schools are given the option to transfer to another public school in the district.

• Indian Creek Elementary School• McNair Discovery Learning Academy• Oak View Elementary School• M.M. Bethune Middle School• Freedom Middle School• Lithonia Middle School• McNair Middle School• Miller Grove Middle School• Stephenson Middle School

• Cedar Grove High School• Clarkston High School• Columbia High School• Cross Keys High School• Elizabeth Andrews High School• Lithonia High School• Martin Luther King, Jr. High School• McNair High School• Miller Grove High School• Stone Mountain High School• Towers High School• International Student Center

Call the Office of School Improvementat 678-676-0309 or 678-676-0381

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School of Arts grad going to Quito

Columbia senior is a BK Scholar

Agnes Scott gets $1 million grant

Thomas Jay Clark

Mikahl Campbell

Billy Mitchell

Agnes Scott College was awarded $1 million from the Coca-Cola Foundation on July 26.

The multiyear grant of $250,000 annually goes through 2014.

Lori George Billingsley, vice president of Coca-Cola Refreshments, said the company believes education is one of the keys to so-cioeconomic development.

“We support education and youth de-velopment organizations that teach young people about the countless opportunities they have to better their communities,” Billingsley said. “Most importantly, we sup-port programs that truly empower youth to go out and create positive change.”

The grant was among more than $8 mil-lion awarded to 51 organizations in 2011.

Mikahl Campbell, a senior at Columbia High School, has won a $1,000 scholarship from the Burger King Scholars Program.

Campbell was one of 23 students from Georgia who received the scholarship on July 20 in recogni-tion of their outstanding academic achievement, along with other academic and community involve-ment criteria.

The Have It Your Way Foundation award-ed more than $1.4 million in scholarships to 1,258 students nationwide as part of the 11th annual Burger King Scholars Program.

This year, 1,249 students were awarded $1,000 scholarships, and five students won $5,000 regional scholarships. For the first

time, four major awards were giv-en, including three $50,000 awards and one $25,000 award.

Scholarship awards help stu-dents offset the cost of attend-ing college or a post-secondary vocational or technical school. Students throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada are eligible for the scholarships.

Recipients are selected based on their grade point average, work experience, extracurricular activities and community service. Both Burger King employees and non-employees are eligible to apply.

For more information, including how to obtain scholarship applications for 2012, visit www.haveityourwayfoundation.org.

Thomas Jay Clark, a 2011 DeKalb School of the Arts gradu-ate, will be taking a year off before college to work as a fellow with the nonprofit Global Citizen Year in Ecuador from September 2011 to May 2012.

Clark, 18, is leaving Aug. 15 for preliminary training in San Francisco, where Global Citizen Year is based. He will learn global entrepre-neurial skills, language skills and culture prerequisites.

On Sept. 1, Clark and nearly 30 other

American high school graduates will depart for Quito, Ecuador. By Oct. 1, when they begin their apprenticeship, the fellows will have been trained ex-tensively in language, safety and cul-ture and will travel to their individual host families around Ecuador.

While abroad, they will work with community leaders and other non-profits to better the community.

As part of Global Citizen Year, Clark is required to raise $3,000 to supplement his expenses and build a stable support group while abroad.

standardized test scores that were falsified. The legislation would apply to teachers and professionals who personally falsified infor-mation as well as those who knew that the student assessment results or standardized test scores were falsified by others.

Any teacher or certified professional fall-ing under these categories would automati-cally forfeit his or her right to any promised salary increase or bonus. These individuals also would be liable for the repayment of any amounts previously paid to them that were based on the results of falsified student assessments or falsified test scores.

The Georgia Federation of Teachers and Georgia Association of Educators support the proposed legislation.

The federation’s president, Verdailia Turner, said no one condones cheating.

“The ill-gotten fruits of cheating should be returned to Georgia’s children,” Turner said. “This proposal is both a fair and com-mon-sense approach.”

Association of Educators President Calvine Rollins said no one should profit from harming children.

“This proposed legislation would not affect honest educators and would only ap-ply to cases that have been fully vetted for the validity of the evidence,” Rollins said. “The current version protects educators’ due process under Georgia’s Fair Dismissal Law, and we want to ensure that this protection remains in the legislation’s final language.”

For more information about the pro-posed legislation, contact Rep. Billy Mitchell at billy.mitchell@house.ga.gov or call him at 770-465-8800.

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