Gannon voted in support of it. District 5 Commissioner Lee May was absent but had indicated at an earlier meeting that he could not support the amendment.

Johnson, the board’s presid-ing officer, said he didn’t want the county to go down “a slippery slope” with an expanded smoking ban.

DeKalb already bans smoking in restau-rants and businesses.

The Board of Health and anti-smoking advocates had pushed for prohibiting smok-ing in all public places, including entrances

Towering presenceSCHOOLS

DeKalb County Schools’ decision to allow cell phone tow-ers at schools will be discussed at a town hall meeting in Clark-ston. 8

Supporters of death-row inmate Troy Davis gathered to pray for clemency in the case that has drawn national attention. 3

Candles for DavisCOMMUNITY

People tasked with planning their family’s next re-union can attend a workshop and learn about op-tions in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. 6

Head for the hillsFINANCE

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ExtEnsion sErvicE Hanging onAgency relevant despite changing times, tight budget

Extension agent Gary Peiffer discusses gardening with Lorene McCall while she tends the Stone Mountain Woman’s Club plot.

DeKalb residents can still light-up in many public spaces after smoking ban expansion fails.

Commissioners balk at extending smoking ban to parks etc.

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Smokers can continue to light up their cigarettes in DeKalb parks, playgrounds, bars and strip clubs following a vote by the DeKalb Board of Commissioners on Tues-day.

With a 4-2 vote on Sept. 13, the commissioners squashed the efforts of the DeKalb Board of Health and anti-smoking advocates to amend the county’s Clean Air Ordinance to expand the smoking ban to most public spaces.

After four months of considering the amendment, Commissioners Larry Johnson, Stan Watson, Sharon Barnes Sutton and Elaine Boyer voted against the amendment. Only Commissioners Jeff Rader and Kathie

By Donna Williams Lewis

Karri Thomas, 16, is in the 4-H Club at Arabia Mountain High School.

And yes, kids ask her what that group does “all the time,” she said, laughing at the question.

“I say it’s not about raising chickens and horses,” Karri said, “and then I give my 4-H speech about all the fun things we do.”

The 4-H Club is a program of the local Cooperative Extension, another source of confusion for many.

Just shy of 100 years old nationally, the Extension is still providing some of the same services offered in the early 1900s – soil testing; information on canning, preserving and pickling your harvest; how to deal with pesky insects.

But with today’s partnerships with com-munity gardens; “green industry” certifica-tion training; online classes in everything from honeybee production to continuing education for child care providers; and 4-H programs for youth in science, engineering and technology, this, as the local Extension folks say at their Memorial Drive office, is “not your grandmama’s extension service.”

Over the decades, DeKalb’s Extension has been operating basically under the radar, quietly morphing with changing times.

That changed last year, when the agency found itself thrust into the glare of a most unwanted spotlight: the chopping block of the most challenging budget DeKalb had seen in many years.

County CEO Burrell Ellis presented a $529 million county budget in December that called for significant cuts, including the elimination of all county funding to the local Extension.

The DeKalb office could not have sur-vived that ax, said its director, Jessica Hill.

County funding has typically represented about half of the DeKalb Extension budget. The other portion is state and federal fund-ing received from its parent agency, the Uni-versity of Georgia Cooperative Extension.

The DeKalb Extension received $763,594 in state/federal funding this year. The final 2011 county budget, at $540 million, kept the DeKalb Extension service alive, restor-ing $689,132 to the 14-person agency. That was down from $891,746 in county funding in 2010, but typical of the deep cuts made countywide.

Lee May, the commission’s Budget Com-mittee chairman, said commissioners re-ceived lots of feedback from the community about “the great work [Extension agents] do

with youth and the really innovative things they do with the funding they receive.”

May said government service providers across the board need to be “more progres-sive” about funding sources, he said, seeking more public-private-nonprofit alliances and going for grants.

As the DeKalb Extension recovers from its scary budget wake-up call, Hill is eager to tell county residents that the agency is as relevant today as in 1914 when the National Coopera-tive Extension Service was founded.

The statewide program’s academic home is within the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and includes a partnership with the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

UGA researchers provide expertise and support to Extension agents statewide,

helping them inform their constituents and respond to issues in their areas.

“We provide top-of-the-line research-based information in the areas of agriculture, horticulture, 4-H and youth development,” Hill said in an interview Monday.

Right now, she said, the DeKalb Extension is helping individuals and groups with main-taining natural resources; fighting childhood obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases; food safety; and leadership development through consultations with agents, off-site presentations and in-house programs.

“The bottom line,” Hill said, “is im-proving the quality of life for all DeKalb citizens.”

A timeline of extension work in Georgia

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Residents and workers in Decatur are urged to go car-free on Sept. 21 and use alter-native methods for getting around town.

Car-Free Day seeks to reduce excessive automobile use for one day out of the year. Decatur Active Living will give out stickers and tattoos to those who walk, bike or car-pool to the free Blue Sky Concert featuring country/pop/rock von Grey at the Com-munity Bandstand, and a special celebration will be held from noon to 1 p.m. during the concert.

How can you participate? Make a com-mitment to reduce your automobile use by biking or riding MARTA to work, walking to the store or the Blue Sky Concert, sharing a ride with friends and neighbors, or riding the bus, Decatur Active Living says.

Walking not only saves gas, but it contrib-utes to better health.

The bandstand is at the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Commerce Drive. For more information, visit www.beactivedecatur.com or call Cheryl Burnette at 678-553-6541.

Volunteers are needed to help the Dream Makers Youth Foundation work concession stands during the PGA Tour Championship at the East Lake Country Club Sept. 21-25.

For every DMYF volunteer who com-pletes a full shift, the nonprofit, which pro-vides educational and recreational opportu-nities for children with cognitive disabilities, will get a percentage of the concession stand earnings throughout the tournament. Volun-teers are needed to work six-hour shifts daily

from 11 a.m. to close. They must wear dress pants, a white shirt, and comfortable shoes. Shuttle buses will take volunteers to and from Turner Field where parking will be free.

Volunteers will get one meal ticket per shift and can return to watch the tournament for free on another day.

Turner Field is at 755 Hank Aaron Drive. To register, visit http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp341176.jsp and click on “I want to help.”

However, it serves food to its patrons at a breakfast bar until it closes at 7 a.m. The club reopens at 9 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Pin Ups has argued in briefs filed with the court that requiring patrons to leave the club and drive their cars rather than remaining on the premises was arbitrary and capricious. Their attorneys argued that “the provision of alcohol is not an issue in this case.”

They claim the club is losing breakfast bar

business and that nude dancing is a consti-tutionally protected activity.

DeKalb County attorneys have contended there is no evidence Pin Ups has suffered an injury and if the club suffers a loss of income and good will due to the law’s restrictions, they can recover their losses in a lawsuit for money damages.

The justices on the Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday and should issue a decision within six months.

Attorneys for Pin Ups Nightclub will ask the Georgia Supreme Court on Sept. 19 to block DeKalb County from forcing the club to close early five days a week.

The club on Ponce de Leon in Decatur is fighting the county ordinance that requires it to close at 4:55 a.m. Thursday through Satur-day and by 3:55 a.m. Sunday and Monday.

It filed a lawsuit in DeKalb Superior Court last November challenging the consti-tutionality of an amendment to the county’s

Alcohol Code adopted in June 2010. In March, a Superior Court judge denied

its motion for a temporary injunction to stop enforcement of the law until the case could be resolved.

Pin Ups appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court to get the ruling overturned.

The case summary from the Supreme Court says that Pin Ups, which offers nude dancing, serves no alcoholic beverages after 3:45 a.m. as mandated by the ordinance.

A former storage room at DeKalb Coun-ty’s Recorders Court is now a courtroom ready for trials.

After rolling up their own sleeves to cre-ate the courtroom, Chief Judge Nelly Withers and public safety officials dedicated the new

courtroom on Sept. 7.“What this is going to

help us do is immediately start running an addi-tional 500 cases a week so that we can meet the goal of 1,000 trials a week,” Withers said.

Withers inherited a backlog of nearly 100,000

cases when she was appointed in 2009 by DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis.

Recorders Court needed an additional courtroom to conduct about 1,000 cases per week, moving forward.

Renovations are expected at the court early next year, but Withers came up with an interim solution.

Recorders Court staff cleared old boxes and shelving from the storage room. DeKalb County Police Officer Chip Olsen volun-teered to build the bench and lecterns on his personal time, and Elliott Perkins, an old friend from high school, helped him

complete the job. Withers and a deputy clerk painted the room.

“I think it goes back to my beginning as an assistant district attorney here in the DA’s office,” Withers said. “One thing that was impressed upon me as a very young person working in public service was that nothing falls out of the realm of your job. And I take that approach here. Nothing is so lowly or beneath me that it isn’t my job.”

After the painting and construction were completed, carpet was installed and benches salvaged from the old juvenile court building were cleaned and installed.

Cases were being adjudicated moments after the ceremonial ribbon cutting.

By October, the full implementation of the courtroom will result in 25 percent extra capacity.

Ellis commended Withers for taking mat-ters into her own hands.

“We are living in a new age in government where we have to be innovative and creative to achieve our goals and objectives,” Ellis said. “I have given this charge to all depart-ment heads to take a hard look at what can and should be done to bring the maximum results for the lowest cost to the taxpayers. Chief Judge Nelly Withers has taken this to heart.”

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The vigils will continue through Sept. 18 to encourage the paroles board to commute Troy Davis’ death sentence.

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Lithonia’s Blueprints for Successful Communities project will hold its first community workshop on Sept. 19.

The 6-to-8 p.m. meeting at Lithonia Middle School will assess challenges, issues and opportunities in the city of Lithonia.

Blueprints, a Georgia Conservancy growth management program, is work-ing with Lithonia on a strategy to spark revitalization of the city’s downtown core.

A team of Georgia Tech graduate students recently began a nine-month research effort led by professor Ellen Dunham-Jones, former director of Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture.

The process envisions an inventory of Lithonia’s housing types and condi-tions, natural and historic resources, greenspace opportunities, and sidewalk locations and conditions.

Three workshops will be held before the final Blueprints product is com-pleted in February 2012.

The meeting will be held at Lithonia Middle School, 2451 Randall Ave.

For more information, contact Katherine Moore or Leah Barnett at the Georgia Conservancy at kmoore@gaconservancy.org and lbarnett@ga-conservancy.org or call 404-876-2900.

Deborah Jackson, who chairs the city’s Redevelopment Committee, can be reached at dajatty@bellsouth.net or 404-534-6545.

Colette Haywood from Lithonia has a son, and she is terrified that what happened to Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis could

just as easily be his fate.That is why she took

time on Sept. 15 to stand up with a lighted candle for Davis, who is convicted of the murder of a white off-duty police officer in Savannah in 1989.

“This says that if you’re in the wrong place at the

wrong time, this could happen to you,” said Haywood, who has never met Davis.

Supporters of Davis believe he is on death row because of mistaken identity.

Since his 1991 trial, seven of the nine state witnesses against him have recanted their tes-timony and other witnesses have implicated another man as the shooter.

Davis’ final clemency hearing before the Georgia Pardons and Paroles Board comes up on Sept. 19. Since Wednesday, the Atlanta Chapter of National Action Network has been holding daily candlelight vigils between 7 and 8 p.m. outside the Board of Pardons and Paroles’ East Tower offices at 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive S.E. in Atlanta.

The vigils will continue through Sept. 18 to encourage the board to commute Davis’ death sentence. The Action Network has invited members of the clergy, community activists and residents to take turns holding vigils.

On Thursday, Haywood was one of 10 men and women who stood in a circle with the lighted slender white candles. They were mostly silent, but occasionally someone would speak up about the unfairness of what has happened to Davis.

In 2010, Davis received a federal eviden-

tiary hearing in Savannah. While the presiding judge ruled that Davis had not established his innocence to the high standard re-quired, he admitted that the case “may not be iron-clad.”

The NAACP and U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson and

John Lewis sent letters to the Board of Par-dons and Paroles this week urging the board to stop the killing of Davis. More than 50 other members of Congress signed Johnson and Lewis’ letter. The men, who represent the 4th and 5th congressional districts, have been fighting since 2007 to stop Davis’ execution.

In his letter, Johnson said that if people turn their backs to Davis now, they turn their

backs on justice and the Constitution.

“How has it come to this that we put a man to death without a single shred of hard scientific or relevant physical evidence,” he said in a statement this week.

Lewis said it is impor-tant for people of goodwill to stand together and speak out in this case.He said the parole board has the power to right a deplorable wrong, especially when there is so much room for doubt about this conviction.

“I believe the board seeks to do what is just and look forward prayerfully to the upcoming clemency hearing with the faith that justice will prevail.”

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Board of Health to move forward with anti-tobacco efforts

DeKalb 4-H program among service’s success storiesThe Extension Service has a long history of providing educational and health services to DeKalb residents.

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and exits to buildings, parks, playgrounds, restaurants, adult entertainment establishments, outdoor entertainment venues, and outdoor service lines such as ATM lines. They also wanted to reduce the number of rooms a hotel can designate for smoking to 10 percent from 25 percent.

D i s t r i c t Health Director S. Elizabeth Ford said that the data suggested that businesses would not be adversely affected by an expanded ban, but that compelling data show the damaging effects of secondhand smoke.

“I am disappointed that the commissioners did not find any

value in any of the amendments, in-cluding those protecting our parks, playgrounds and service lines,” Ford said. “Despite this setback, we will continue to move forward to promote safe air for all who live, work and play in DeKalb.”

After commissioners deferred their vote on the proposed amend-ment on Aug. 23, May said that people can already eat a meal smoke-free in restaurants in De-Kalb County and that up to 98 percent of businesses are already smoke-free.

The Atlanta-based Georgia Premium Retail Tobacconists As-sociation and the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association came out against the proposed amendment in the spring, arguing that expanding the current smoking ban would cause customers to seek other, more smoker-friendly businesses in other

communities.Supporters of the ban cited

the effects of secondhand smoke on health and health care costs, but the commissioners listened to opponents who said it would have been bad for business.

The Board of Health said ciga-rette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable illness and early death in the United States. Each year, about 443,000 Ameri-cans die prematurely as a result of smoking or exposure to second-hand smoke.

Clinical studies have shown that exposing nonsmokers to 20 min-utes of concentrated secondhand smoke can have the same effect as smoking one cigarette, the board said. Extending that exposure over two years shows that a nonsmok-ing, full-time employee will inhale the equivalent of nearly 12,000 cigarettes.

A survey conducted this spring found widespread support among DeKalb residents from amending the ordinance, which currently bans smoking in most workplaces.

Seventy-one percent of resi-dents polled said they did not want smoking at outdoor public events and 93 percent said they wanted to keep tobacco advertising away from places often used by children. A ma-jority of residents also did not want smoking at outdoor recreational facilities including public parks, in outdoor areas of restaurants, and inside bars and adult entertainment establishments.

The telephone poll of 1,000 ran-domly selected adult residents was conducted by Market Decisions on behalf of the Board of Health.

For more information about DeKalb County Board of Health’s smoke-free environment efforts, visit www.dekalbhealth.net.

S. Elizabeth Ford

begins in 1904, when the first boys’ corn club was organized in the Newton County schools.

Two years later, girls’ garden, tomato and canning clubs began in Hancock County and statewide corn and cotton growing contests were held.

In 1905, UGA began issuing bulletins giving production tips. And in 1908, the first “College on Wheels,” an educational train with cars for livestock and the exhibition of modern farm machinery and farming practices, began traversing the state. College faculty delivered speeches to crowds of as many as 5,000 people.

Started nationally in 1921, the agency’s 4-H Clubs promote healthy living and good citizenship, focusing on a child’s sense of ethics and responsibility, care for others, communication skills, financial literacy, self-confidence and envi-ronmental protection.

More than 6,000 urban and suburban kids from age 9 to 19 participate in 4-H Clubs in more than 50 schools and community sites. 4-H refers to the head, heart, hands and health.

Georgia 4-H has five environ-mental education centers across the state. Built in 1954, the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in Eatonton is said to be the largest 4-H center in the country with overnight accom-modations for 1,000 campers.

It was there that Marie Trice, who leads DeKalb Extension’s 4-H division, made her first club pre-sentation: “How to Make a Better Breakfast.”

She was an eighth-grader from Thomaston, the only African-American there to compete with more than 600 other 4-H kids from around the state in 1968.

“My passion about working with kids comes from that experi-

ence,” Trice said, “and my drive and determination for making this program the best in the state, if not the country.”

She has found success. Ten of DeKalb’s 4-H Club members placed first, second or third at the 2011 Project Achievement district competition. One of them was Trice’s daughter, Ariana Cherry, 14, an Arabia Mountain High School student who won a spot in 4-H’s Clovers & Company statewide performing arts group.

Joshua Grosh, 17, a Lithonia High School senior, is president of the DeKalb County Council of 4-H.

“4-H is a home away from home,” Joshua said, “with people who are always there for you and … help you fit into your world and connect with thousands of other students across the nation.”

Last summer, Joshua had to speak off-the-cuff before 500 peo-ple at a 4-H event at Rock Eagle. He was running for the state Board of Directors and had to immediately answer a question he pulled out of

a hat. The question: If there were a fifth H, what would it be?

“I said ‘Hope,’ ” Joshua said, “because I’ve seen 4-H’ers who come from abusive homes who tell me 4-H is one of the places they feel safe; 4-H’ers who come from bullying school settings who feel they actually matter for once; 4-H’ers who were broken down so far that they felt they were nothing, but when they come to 4-H they feel they can actually do something with their lives.”

Serving humanity is one of the things Columbus Brown loves about being one of the Extension’s trained Master Gardeners.

County residents accepted into the program get 50 hours of training in weekly classes at the Extension office. They reciprocate by sharing what they’ve learned in at least 50 hours of volunteer work. Last year, there were 270 volunteers.

A Master Gardener program for schools has helped produce out-door classrooms such as the one at Stone Mountain Elementary.

“County capability in terms of responding to citizens has dimin-ished,” said Brown, a federal gov-ernment retiree. “We’re providing assistance in areas already strained in the budget as volunteers.”

Brown is one of the volunteers at the Stone Mountain community garden, located on a former ball field behind the city post office. The group has delivered more than 500 pounds of produce since April to the Stone Mountain Methodist Church food pantry, Brown said.

“The group at the Stone Moun-tain garden is bonded in a very special way because much of the food we grow is for the food pan-try,” Brown said. “Just knowing that people are getting healthy food that is pesticide-free is wonderful.”

Gary Peiffer, a county Extension agent who manages the horticul-ture division, said his team offers commercial landscaping training to arborists and county employees.

Hill wears a second hat as head of the Extension’s Family and Con-sumer Services (better known in the past as home economics).

She and her staff offer programs on health and nutrition, housing education, financial literacy, food safety and preservation, small business development, and family living. They give child care provider training and have programs related to diabetes and other chronic dis-eases. Moderate- to low-income people are target audiences.

They teach wherever six or more people will have them and offer sessions at the Extension’s training center. Last year, 71,902 county residents were served in workshops, classes and through 4-H, Hill said.

For more information about DeKalb Extension programs, vis-it www.caes.uga.edu/extension/dekalb or call 404-298-4080. The Extension office is at 4380 Memo-rial Drive in Decatur.

“I’ve seen 4-H’ers who come from abusive homes who tell me 4-H is one

of the places they feel safe; 4-H’ers who come from bullying school settings who

feel they actually matter for once.” Joshua Grosh

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5Community “Sanitary sewer overflows are at the root of the $1.4 billion Consent Decree and the $433,000 fine levied against DeKalb County at the end of 2010.”

‘Trash for Cash’ kicks off Curbside Recycling FOG program in Lithonia

Vote on code violations penalties deferred to Sept. 27 meeting

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from county sewers and landfills.During the event, Curbside Recy-

cling will register Lithonia residents for participating in the free FOG collection service. There will be a prize drawing for Caribbean cruises.

Todd Williams, a Curbside Recycling partner, says he is inviting residents to be part of the solution for helping to clean up the county’s grease-clogged sewer system.

“Sanitary sewer overflows are at the root of the $1.4 billion Consent Decree and the $433,000 fine levied against DeKalb County at the end of 2010,” he said.

“These penalties against our county are driving up our water bills and it has to stop. Be a part of the solution to improve our community and environ-ment by going green and leave with a little green in your pocket.”

Todd Williams

Crickets at 2617 Panola Road from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Trash for Cash kicks off the city of Lithonia’s residential FOG (fats, oil & grease) collection program, which Curbside Recycling says it will man-age. The tiny city joins a growing list of municipalities using the Curbside Re-cycling’s GRO (grease remediation oil) wells, which recycle grease and oils used in the family kitchens, diverting them

By Mary Swint

Crafting new penalties for code violations is proving a little challenging for the DeKalb Board of Commissioners, which deferred a long anticipated vote on the matter to its Sept. 27 meeting.

Commissioners, who were set to vote on a new penalty structure on Sept. 13, said they needed more time to work on ways to enforce court fines, including putting liens on property.

Under the current code, a Recorders Court judge can fine a violator who is per-sonally served with the citation or summons up to $1,000 or sentence him to jail for up to 120 days. However, a large number of cases have to be dismissed because the violator was not properly served as required in criminal cases involving possible jail sentences.

Under the code amendment discussed at Tuesday’s board meeting, a Recorders Court judge could issue a fine of up to $500 if the citation or summons was left at the premises where the violation occurred, mailed to the violator at his address on tax records, and

published by the Recorders Court on its calendar Web site. This is expected to reduce the number of dismissals.

Nelly Withers, the DeKalb Recorders Court chief judge, told the commissioners the maximum fine would be lowered from $1,000 to $500 as a policy decision by the board and that due process calls for having a penalty in proportion to the level of notice given to the accused violator.

This spring members of the Advisory Council on Code Compliance formed by DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis helped draft an ordinance for the creation of a DeKalb Board of Code Compliance. It was modeled after a Fulton County board that has operated for 10 years and based on Georgia’s Local Government Code Enforcement Board Act. The new DeKalb board would have had seven appointed citizen members who could hear cases and issue fines.

The commissioners deferred that pro-posed ordinance from April until their Aug. 23 meeting, when Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton substituted it with a proposed code amendment that expands the possible

penalties and keeps the hearings in the Re-corders Court.

On Aug. 30, the County Operations and Public Safety Committee voted to recom-mend passage of the amendment that deals with general penalties.

During a presentation at Tuesday’s meet-ing, Barnes Sutton said that the Recorders Court can handle a higher caseload of code violation cases than the proposed Board of Code Compliance. Recorders Court holds weekly hearings, while the proposed code compliance board would meet twice monthly with the possibility of the chairman calling additional meetings.

Recorders Court hears two calendars per week with 45 to 65 cases on each calendar. The court’s capacity will increase to four cal-endars in the future with the addition of two courtrooms. By contrast, the Fulton County Board of Code Enforcement hears 12 cases per meeting on the average. The ordinance creating a code compliance board would limit penalties from $100 to $1,000 and would not impose any jail sentences. There is no minimum penalty in the existing pro-

cess and in the proposed amendment.

District 6 Commis-sioner Kathie Gannon made the motion to defer the penalty amendment ordinance so a provision could be added to allow the county to impose liens on a property if a violator fails to pay a fine. She also asked the COPS committee to consider some other concerns with the ordinance, which she called a very good ordinance overall.

In a Sept. 12 memo to fellow commission-ers, Gannon said the maximum fine should be $1,000 in all cases and there should be a mandatory minimum fine. She also proposed forming Neighborhood Code Watch groups and deputizing citizens to collect signs from rights of way.

Currently the department that issues alcohol and business licenses cannot easily search the court records for outstanding fines and has to follow a schedule for renewing licenses.

Kathie Gannon

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6 FinanCe “The goal of the Pigeon Forge Family Reunion Workshop and Travel Expo is making it easy and fun.”

Pigeon Forge hosting workshopJobless rate highest in six months

Ramsey course taught by DVD

AARP seeking tax volunteers

Pigeon Forge in East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains is one of the top family vacation destinations in the nation.

Golden is DOT’s new interim chiefThe man at the helm of the Georgia

DOT is Keith Golden. Golden, a 25-year DOT employee, was named interim com-missioner on Sept. 7 in the wake of Vance Smith’s resignation.

He was most recently operations director.

Smith was DOT’s commissioner for two years. The former 17-year Republican state represen-tative from Pine Moun-tain served from 1993 until he was elected commissioner by DOT’s board in June 2009. He replaced Gena Evans, who was ousted in February 2009.

No reason was given for Smith’s sud-den departure after a closed-door meeting, but DOT board Chairman Rudy Bowen said that he will stay on as an adviser through Dec. 31.

“On behalf of the board, I thank Mr. Smith for his service to transportation in Georgia and welcome Deputy Com-missioner Golden to his new position,” Bowen said.

Golden, a licensed professional engi-neer with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the Georgia Tech, assumed his new duties immediately.

He began his Georgia DOT career in planning and has held numerous manage-ment positions there.

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Financial guru Dave Ramsey will be teaching the 13-week Financial Peace University course at Word Church In-ternational, but not in person.

Ramsey will pres-ent the course, which begins on Sept. 18 at the Decatur church, mostly by DVD. An article in the Sept. 10 issue of CrossRoadsNews incorrectly reported that he would be at the church.

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The 2012 tax season is coming up soon, and AARP Tax-Aide needs volunteers to help prepare taxes for low-income filers and seniors.

AARP Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest free volunteer-run tax counseling and prepara-tion service.

Volunteers can be of all ages and don’t need to be members of AARP, but they must be available to work weekdays from Feb. 1 to April 15. They will learn new skills, meet people and give back to the community.

Tax counselors receive free tax training and become IRS-certified by passing the Internal Revenue Service exam. They help customers one-on-one at tax sites.

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Georgia’s unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in August, its highest level in six months.

The August rate was up one-tenth of a percentage point from 10.1 percent in July. The state’s jobless rate also was 10.2 percent in August a year ago.

The seasonally adjusted rate increased slightly last month because about 5,500 new job seekers – as well as more of those already unemployed – were unable to find work.

The number of jobs in Georgia increased 7,300 in August to 3,801,000, or two-tenths of a percentage point. Most of the gain was among seasonal workers in the public school systems who returned to work after being laid off for the summer. Also, some job increases occurred in professional and business services, education and health care, and construction.

State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler was pleased with the gain in manufacturing in the past year.

“Despite a drop in the number of manu-facturing jobs from July to August, Georgia has gained 2,400 manufacturing jobs in the

last 12 months,” he said Thursday.While Georgia had a net increase in

jobs, there was a decrease in jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry, especially in accommodations and food services, as well as in wholesale and retail trade.

In DeKalb County, initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits in August decreased to 3,847, down 2.8 per-cent, or 111, from 3,958 in July. In August 2010, there were 4,988 initial claims, for an over-the-year decrease of 22.9 percent, or 1,141.

Statewide, first-time claims for UI benefits in August decreased to 56,476, down 5,094, or 8.3 percent, from 61,570 in July. Most of the first-time claims were filed in manufacturing, administrative and support services, trade, and construction. There was an over-the-year decrease of 13,788 initial claims, or 19.6 percent, from 70,264 filed in August of last year.

Long-term unemployed workers in-creased by 3,000 to 254,100. The number of long-term unemployed is 15.5 percent higher than in August of last year.

Families looking for ideas and destina-tions for their family reunion can attend the Pigeon Forge Family Reunion Workshop and Travel Expo on Oct. 1 in Dunwoody.

Jeff Mills, a Lawrenceville-based travel and hospitality consultant/trainer, will lead the free workshop at the Holiday Inn, 4386 Chamblee Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody.

He calls the workshop a “no-cost” op-portunity to learn.

“There are many moving parts in a re-union, and there are many ways a reunion organizer can dramatically increase the odds of orchestrating a successful event,” Mills said.

The 9 a.m.-to-noon workshop will cover topics like building a reunion database, scheduling, pleasing all members of the family, working with a hotel or cabin rental company, working with caterers, and obtain-ing group rates at attractions.

Joy McNealy of Pigeon Forge Depart-ment of Tourism said that planning even a small reunion can either be a daunting task or a lot of fun.

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Pigeon Forge, which in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, is top family vacation destinations, with more than 10 million visitors a year. Atlanta is one of its top three visitor origination markets.

Mills has a lot to offer including Dolly-wood, theater entertainment; dinner shows; and 10,000 hotel, motel and cabin rooms.

Great Smoky Mountains storyteller Mike Gwinn and the “Soul of Motown” production at the Grand Majestic Theater will provide entertainment at the workshop.

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Adults also need up-to-date shots

Many adults are unaware of the potential risks of vaccine-preventable disease, the need for booster doses or the availability of new vaccines, the Department of Public Health says.

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No one is ever too old to get their shots, and that’s the message from Georgia public health officials as National Adult Immunization Awareness Week kicks off Sept. 18.

Acting state epidemiologist Anil T. Mangla says no one outgrows the need for vaccines and that adults make up roughly 95 percent of the 50,000 Ameri-cans who die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases.

“By not getting vaccinated as recommended, adults are leaving themselves needlessly vulnerable to illness and potentially spreading vaccine-preventable diseases such as pertussis [whooping cough] to their friends, family and colleagues,” Mangla said.

Data from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that adults remain largely unvac-cinated against preventable infectious illnesses.

The state Department of Public Health says that safe and effective vaccines are available to protect adults and children against potentially life-threatening diseases such as tetanus, diphtheria, meningococ-

cal disease, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, shingles, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chicken pox).

But many adults are unaware of the potential risks of vaccine-preventable disease, the need for boosters or the availability of new vaccines. It advises adults to talk with their health care provider or visit their public health department to find out if their immunizations are current.

In a survey of adults, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases found that doctor/patient commu-nication challenges may be at least part of the problem. It found that one in five adults surveyed believed that vaccines are optional for healthy adults, and 19 percent believed vaccination is generally not recommended for adults except for influenza or travel-related vaccines.

Last year, 247 pertussis cases were reported to Geor-gia’s Department of Public Health and adults accounted for 22 percent of cases. In 2010, adults accounted for nine deaths in the state from seasonal influenza.

For more information, visit http://health.state.ga.us/programs/immunization.

Fitness fans and mental health advocates can participate in the Sept. 24 Walk of HEROes in Decatur.

The 5K walk/run, in its fifth year, benefits clients of the DeKalb Community Service Board, which serves residents with developmen-tal disabilities, substance addictions and mental illnesses.

Walk of HEROes is presented by the Brighter Tomorrows Foun-dation. It also includes a tot trot and Community Hero Fun Day with vendors, snacks and prize drawings.

Warm-up starts at 8:40 a.m., and the 5K begins at 9 at the Rich-ardson Health Center, 445 Winn Way. The tot trot starts at 10.

Medals will include an overall and masters’ male and female as well as first place in age groups.

Registration ranges from $7 to $20. Fees increase on race day. Register online at www.active.com/running/decatur-ga/walk-of-heroes-5k-2011 or visit www.dekcsb.org.

Volunteers and sponsors also are needed. To sign up as a team, vendor or sponsor, visit www.walkofheroes5k.com or contact Mi-chelle Potter at info@dekcsb.org or 404-508-7875.

Cancer survivors can share stories of love and inspiration at the 19th Magic of Life Celebration on Oct. 1 at the bandstand on the downtown Decatur Square.

The registration deadline for survivors and guests has been extended to Sept. 22.

The noon-to-3 p.m. event offers cancer survivors a chance to celebrate their triumph over the disease with others who have walked in their shoes in a fun, informal setting.

The British Invasion cover band Backyard Birds will perform.Michael Killeen, president of the nonprofit Magic of Life Founda-

tion, which is hosting the event, said it offers cancer survivors a time and place to celebrate their triumph over the disease.

“These celebrations are always inspiring and joyful, and I feel privileged to be a part of them,” he said.

The event is presented by J. Smith Lanier & Co. and Georgia Cancer Specialists.

Cancer survivors receive free admission, which includes lunch and a free T-shirt. Admission for guests is $10 per person and in-cludes food.

To volunteer, visit www.molfi.org and fill out the online volunteer form. For more information, call 404-373-2021.

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The School Board approved a lease for T-Mobile to erect and operate cell towers at nine schools.

Nine schools get Safe Routes grants

SPLOST referendum gets funding

Mission Possible: Read 25 books

Community input sought on schools

Meeting on cell towers in schools

Youth “The Safe Routes to School program empowers students to make positive lifestyle changes to improve their overall health and well-being,”

The way is now clear for the DeKalb School Board’s new penny Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The board voted unanimously on Sept. 12 to approve the $688,393 contract to cover the cost of adding SPLOST IV to the ballot.

It hopes to raise $475 million from the new tax, which will run from 2012 to 2017.

DeKalb Schools will get 94.2 percent of the revenues from SPLOST IV and it is pay-ing $328,740.48 – the bulk of the election cost. Atlanta Public Schools, which will get 3 percent of the tax, will pay $10,553, and City Schools of Decatur, which will get 2.8

percent, is paying $9,806.If voters approve the referendum, the new

tax will fund capital improvements to the classrooms, schoolhouses and sports facili-ties. It will succeed the current one-penny SPLOST III sales tax, which expires in June 2012. DeKalb’s 7 percent tax rate would re-main unchanged.

If SPLOST IV fails, district officials said a portion of current homestead exemptions for DeKalb homeowners will automatically be revoked, leading to an immediate property tax increase countywide. The homestead ex-emptions will generate only $7.5 million per year for capital improvements to schools.

Students at Fairington Elementary and Chapel Hill Middle schools are on a mission to read at least 25 grade-level books as part of their schools’ 25 Book Campaign kicking off this month.

On Sept. 23, Fairington Elementary will launch its 25 Book Campaign with a 9-to-10:30 a.m. parade on school grounds at 5505 Phillip Bradley Drive in Lithonia.

Chapel Hill Middle will host its 25 Book Campaign block party on Sept. 29 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the school at 3535 Dogwood

Farm Road in Decatur.Under the campaign, students who read

25 books will read approximately 1 million words for the 2011-2012 school year. Stu-dents will read books from disciplines such as language arts, math, science, social studies, and books of personal interest.

Chapel Hill Middle’s block party will feature games, concessions, and music as well as band and step team performances. Students read over 16,000 pages during the first semester of the 2010-2011 school year.

Walking to school will get a lot safer for students of nine DeKalb elementary and middle schools because of $45,000 in grants from the DeKalb County Board of Health.

The Strategic Alliance for Health grants will help the schools purchase bike racks, LED lights, reflective vests, educational ma-terials, and walking to school bus kits.

The grants were awarded in September, which is being observed as National Obesity Awareness Month

Grant recipients are Dunaire Elementary; Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Acad-emy; Indian Creek, Dresden, Kelley Lake, Cary Reynolds, Meadowview and Hightower elementary; and Chamblee Middle. Each school got $5,000.

Robert Moseley, the DeKalb Schools deputy chief of school operations, said the district is pleased to partner with the Board of Health to help increase physical activity among DeKalb students.

“The Safe Routes to School program empowers students to make positive lifestyle changes to improve their overall health and well-being,” he said.

With the program, communities can make walking and bicycling to and from school a safe and regular activity. By promot-

ing increased physical activity, the program seeks to reduce childhood obesity.

As part of the grants, the school will create Safe Routes to School coalitions, develop action and sustainability plans, and conduct introductory meetings and kickoff events by the end of the month.

DeKalb’s District Health Director S. Elizabeth Ford said childhood obesity is a serious public health challenge.

“Georgia ranked second in the nation for childhood obesity, and in DeKalb County, 13 percent of public school students are obese,” she said. “The Safe Routes to School program helps to engage children in daily physical activity, which is one strategy to help reduce childhood obesity.”

Before making the grants, the Board of Health conducted walkability assessments within a one-mile radius of each school.

It looked for adequate infrastructure such as lighting, sidewalks and potential hazards.

The DeKalb Board of Health is Geor-gia’s only local health department to get Strategic Alliance for Health grants for schools from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Parents, educators, residents and stake-holders can participate in a DeKalb Schools Community Engagement Session on Sept. 20 to help develop a strategic plan that outlines the future direction of the school district.

The session at the school system’s Ad-ministrative and Instructional Complex in Tucker will include break-out sessions and surveys to begin the process of updating the district’s current strategic plan.

The new community-driven strategic plan will be directed by input from par-ticipating stakeholders. An online survey will be available on the district’s Web site – www.dekalb.k12.ga.us – immediately following the meeting for those who are unable to attend. The AIC Auditorium is at 1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd. To R.S.V.P., call 678-676-0023 or e-mail re-search@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us.

Parents and residents who are opposed to T-Mobile cell phone towers on DeKalb school properties can attend a Sept. 24 informational town hall meeting in Clarkston.

The 10 a.m.-to-noon meeting is hosted by the Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter organization and Parents & Homeowners Against Cell Towers on School Property.

The groups have invited elected officials and administrative staff from the Board of Education and the offices of DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis and the DeKalb Board of Commissioners.

They have asked the School Board to iden-tify the law under which it gave permission to T-Mobile to build the cell towers in residential communities where the schools are located and whether parents who want cell towers in their schools will be given the right to relocate their children to a school without a cell tower.

The School Board approved the up to 30-year lease at its July 11 meeting for T-Mobile to erect and operate cell towers at six elementary schools, two high schools and a comprehensive school. Over the life of the lease, T-Mobile will pay the school district more than $2.3 million in rent.

The schools are Flat Rock and Prince ton elementary and MLK Jr. High in Lithonia; Briar-lake and Narvie J. Harris elementary in Decatur; Smoke Rise Elementary in Stone Mountain; Jolly Elementary in Clarkston; and Lakeside High and Margaret Harris Comprehensive School in Atlanta.

T-Mobile also must get approval from DeKalb County government.

The 10 a.m.-to-noon meeting will be held at the Clarkston Woman’s Club at 3913 Church St. in Clarkston. For more information, e-mail voterwhocares@gmail.com or call Viola Davis or Ruby Bozeman at 770-256-0034.

» » Panel Members:

» » Special Education Workshops

» Early Childhood Workshops for Pre-K and K

» Language Translators/Interpreters

» » Childcare for School-Age Children

» » » Light refreshments will be served

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Conference Highlights» Panel Discussion for Parents: Improving Student

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» Panel Members: Interim Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, a DeKalb County School Board Member, a principal, parents, and other community leaders

» Math, Reading and Language Arts Workshops on all Grade Levels

» Special Education Workshops

» Early Childhood Workshops for Pre-K and K

» Language Translators/Interpreters

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» Childcare for School-Age Children

» Special Workshops for Middle and High School Students

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More than 70 golfers will tee off on Sept. 17 for the Martin Luther King Jr. High School Touchdown Club Annual Golf Classic.

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Children can pick up free school supplies, clothes and other items at the Sept. 17 “A Back to School Extrava-ganza” in Clarkston.

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The five-piece string band Roxie Watson will headline the Sept. 18 “Harmony for Healing” concert in Decatur to benefit the Rape Crisis Center.

The 7:30 p.m. concert at Eddie’s Attic will celebrate survival and promote sexual wholeness. Tickets are $25 and all proceeds go toward helping survivors rebuild their lives.

Roxie Watson, whose members hail from Decatur and Atlanta, will perform songs that embody strength and provide positive messages.

Eddie’s Attic is at 515 N. McDonough St. in Decatur. Tickets are available at www.eddiesattic.com or by calling 1-877-548-3237.

The official ribbon cutting for Clarkston’s newly resur-faced tennis courts at Milam Park will be on Sept. 25.

The courts were renovated with a $10,000 grant from the United States Tennis Association.

The renovated area, which caters to kids ages 10 and under, has four permanent 36-foot courts and one 78-foot court with 60 feet of blended lines.

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City officials will cut the ribbons at a ceremony begin-ning at 2 p.m.

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Sports Hall of Fame and the National Black Golf Hall of Fame, also will be honored.

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