07-24-2015 Dunwoody Reporter

JULY 24 – AUG. 6, 2015 • VOL. 6 — NO. 15

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PHIL MOSIER

Mary Nelson, 8, left, and her sister Kate, 9, channel their inner Annie Leibovitz at a summer photography camp led by Heather Johnson, right, at All Saints Catholic Church on July 21. The one-week course, for students ages eight to 13, taught the history of

photography, camera operation and how to share moments through pictures.

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For many Dunwoody parents, the GLASS is half full. Erika Harris, co-chair of Georgians for Local Area School

Systems, or GLASS, says upcoming months will be about fundraising and educating lawmakers.

Dunwoody’s hopeful lobbyists want state lawmakers to call a vote to amend the state Constitution and allow lo-cal school districts in places such as Dunwoody. But they’ve watched legislation stall during the past two years. Th is year, they hope to convince state lawmakers to pass the bill, known as HR 4.

Rep. Tom Taylor (R-Dunwoody), who wrote HR 4, said he plans to bring it up for a vote this year. “We want to bring it to the fl oor as early as we can,” he said.

Taylor also said a Senate version of the bill may move for-ward, if HR 4 stalls in the House. GLASS’s focus, he said, will be advocating for the legislation while he is working on the “procedural stuff to get the bill through.”

Heyward Wescott said GLASS needs to get information

in front of every legislator. “We’ve got to spell it out for them,” he said. “Th is is state-

wide, and many legislators might not realize this is coming down the pipe.”

Wescott said he came to Dunwoody like other parents “to build a nest” and only after moving in did he start to look closely at the schools. He said Dunwoody has a “per-fect footprint” for a Dunwoody school system with sever-al elementary schools feeding into middle and then a sin-gle high school.

“We’re excited,” he said. “It’s a major uphill task, but right now it’s one of the best options the state has in im-proving the education system.”

He described Harris as somebody who “drills down to the issues.”

Harris is a mother of four and a master teacher who earned a graduate degree to teach elementary through mid-


Dunwoody City Council members are questioning the cost of formally becoming a designated “bicycle-friendly” communi-ty after a presentation on earning the rec-ognition.

A 77-page Bicycle Friendliness Assess-ment created by the Atlanta Bicycle Coali-tion was presented to council members on July 13. It included recommendations that would allow the city to earn within the next few years a “bronze” or “silver” designation from the League of American Bicyclists, a national advocacy group.

But the price of one of the main rec-ommendations worried council members. In his report, Johann Weber, a public pol-icy graduate student at Georgia Tech, said Dunwoody should employ a dedicated bike-friendly community “champion.”

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed in May named Atlanta’s fi rst chief bicycle offi cer, a full-time planner, engineer and advocate for the city’s bike transportation goals. Th e Atlanta Fal-cons Youth Foundation is supporting the position through a fi ve-year $250,000 chal-lenge grant to the city through the Atlan-ta Bicycle Coalition, the city said in a press release.

“Th is position is an example of how the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition is bringing new resources to the table for a more bikeable, walkable, livable city,” Rebecca Serna, exec-utive director of the Atlanta Bicycle Coali-tion, said in a press release.

But in Dunwoody, Councilman Ter-ry Nall said he worries about “staff creep,” and Councilwoman Lynn Deutsch remind-ed Weber that Dunwoody likes to do things “lean and mean.”

Nall asked why Dunwoody would seek a certifi cation at all.

“Why would we exert energy and re-sources to go after a certifi cate?” Nall asked Weber.

“Th e certifi cate is nothing,” Weber said. “It represents something about your com-munity that has value. You’re not chasing status.”

Weber said seeking a bronze or silver cer-tifi cation would signify that Dunwoody as a community is not only a great place to ride

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State Farm’s huge offi ce complex under construction on Hammond Drive is being designed to house up to 10,000 employees, while minimizing its eff ect on sur-rounding streets and providing new public spaces, the developer says.

KDC Realty Regional Vice President Alex Chambers said the Texas-based company is building a “multi-func-tional hub” with three buildings for the new State Farm facility.

Dunwoody Homeowners Association board mem-ber Jim Redovian called it a “mega-project.” Chambers joked that it wasn’t State Farm’s description.

Th e project’s design will allow employees to stay in the same place when they are promoted within the com-pany, he said. Similar corporate complexes are being built in Phoenix and Dallas.

Chambers told the Dunwoody Homeowners Asso-ciation July 12 they spent a lot of time considering traf-fi c, and the 10-million-square-foot complex will make it much easier to use MARTA because one of the three buildings will connect directly to the Dunwoody tran-sit station.

“We’re making it so easy for people to use MARTA,” Chambers said.

Th e fi rst building will be 600,000 square feet and in-clude a three-level connector with a walkway that will keep employees from having to cross the street at the corner, Chambers said.

Use of multiple entrances and exits from parking decks should make it easier for drivers to avoid left turns that would back up traffi c, Chambers said. He also said he believes the overpass above I-285 will get more use now.

Th e company broke ground for its regional head-quarters in Atlanta at Hammond Drive and Perimeter Center West in May 2014. By May 2016, the construc-tion will start to take shape, Chambers said. “It will start to look like a building,” he said.

State Farm no longer plans to build a hotel at the site, Chambers said. Th e company is working on a zoning change to allow offi ce space in areas now zoned for res-idential use, he said. Dunwoody City Council is sched-uled to hold a public hearing on the change on July 27.

“It’s zoned for 2 million square feet of residential and we’re going to change it to offi ce,” he told members of the DHA board. “Th at should make most of you hap-py.”

An open area in the middle of the complex will not only be used by State Farm, but also as a public amenity where programming could include musical performanc-es or fl ea markets, Chamber said. State Farm is also plan-ning a multi-use path for bikes and pedestrians to get through the site, he said.

Th e project’s biggest hold-up involves an “east-west connector” road that State Farm plans to build along the Fulton and DeKalb County line.


Dunwoody city offi cials have decided to pay in-terest on property taxes wrongly collected from homeowners over the past three years.

City Council voted July 13 to add 1 percent per month in interest to the amounts now being re-funded to taxpayers. Th e residents were taxed at too high a rate after city offi cials failed to properly notify DeKalb County of a tax exemption during the years 2012, 2013 and 2014.

About $150,000 in refunds will be sent to owners of about 2,748 residential parcels, based on an initial analysis of the Dunwoody residential tax records for the three-year period, the city said July 8.

Refunds will be as low as 11 cents and as high as $1,000.

Finance Director Chris Pike said July 13 the mis-take occurred because the city did not have a staff per-son designated to report the information to DeKalb. He said he will make this his priority now and work to be more proactive as opposed to reactive.

“I don’t think there was a designated go-to person to make sure that legislation was tracked as closely,” Pike said. “We took more of a reactive point; when something came to our attention that aff ected us, we reacted.”

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Th at Dunwoody was north of I-285 was about as much as Rev. Charles Broome knew about the place before moving with his wife to lead Kingswood United Methodist Church.

“Th e membership has opened their arms and hearts to us and I’m excited to be here,” he said. “I thoroughly enjoyed my fi ve days here so far and I hope I have a long-time appointment here.”

Broome led his fi rst Sunday service on June 28, two days af-ter a tree fell on his car outside his church-owned home, he said.

Th ough the church in Augus-ta he moved from had a more tra-ditional style, Broome said he felt refreshed by the change.

“Here the style of the worship service is a little diff erent than what I’m accustomed to, but the messages will be the same,” he said. “Typically, I am accustomed to everything coming from the pulpit or platform and in this ser-vice people sang from the congre-gation and balcony and used the entire space. I’ve seen one worship service and it was a great day even before I spoke.”

For fi ve years Broome was the senior pastor at Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Augusta, where Broome’s two daughters and fi ve grandsons still live. He moved into that role after working 12 years as a part-time pas-tor, where he said he had a part-time secretary and did everything that needed doing himself.

Broome said he believes he always ends up where he needs to be, and as a minister, his gifts and graces are used for a higher purpose.

“I’m a fi rm believer in this whole process,” he said. “I don’t understand how, but in the midst of the process we’re appointed for a sea-son of the church. Th ere is a place for our gifts and graces to be used,” Broome said.

He said he chose to go into ministry when he was in his mid-40s, after working as a sales-man for one of the largest wholesale nurseries in the country.

“I worked in the mid-Atlantic area and as-

sisted in some key accounts,” Broome said. “We sold to people like Home Depot, Pike’s and those kinds of places.”

He said when he mentioned his desire to change career fi elds, his wife said she could understand that, but if God had wanted her to be a pastor’s wife, she’d have married a pastor.

“I asked her to pray, and we prayed for three years when it came to me to be a part-time local pastor,” Broome said. “She low-ered her head for a second and looked up and said, ‘I can deal with that.’”

Th at was in 1997. As a part-time pastor, Broome said he served in a smaller church that couldn’t aff ord a full-time pas-tor. He agreed to go to school to study theology, but not seminary school.

It was “like technical school as opposed to university,” he said. “You get exposed to all of the same things, but instead of hav-

ing to swim in deep water, I had a lifejacket.”Because he wanted a master’s degree, he did

enroll in 2004 at Erskine Th eological Semi-nary, an educational institution of the Associ-ate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Now that he and his wife are moved into their home in Dunwoody, he said she’s excit-ed. “It’s a new adventure. We’re in a new town and exposed to new and great things,” he said.

Broome didn’t say he considered it a sign from God that a tree hit his car, but he said he knew he was in the right place when he saw Joshua 24:15, which says “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” on an entryway at Kingswood UMC.

“Strangely enough that has been one of my favorite verses since we started having chil-dren, and I had those words on a plaque on my kitchen wall in Augusta,” he said. “Th e last thing we took off the wall when we moved was that plaque and that felt so appropriate [to see it on the entryway]. It’s very evident in the way we’ve been greeted that holds true here.”

New pastor ‘excited’ to be at Kingswood United Methodist

Senior rabbi starts at Temple Emanu-El

BY JOHN RUCHJust three hours into his

new job as senior rabbi at Tem-ple Emanu-El, Spike Ander-son outlined some of his goals for the Spalding Drive congre-gation.

“I think I’d like to do a lot of community outreach, get the temple much more involved in Israel, and get the temple much more involved in local so-cial justice issues,” Anderson said dur-ing a July 1 inter-view.

Anderson is suc-ceeding Senior Rabbi Scott Colbert, who is retiring at year’s end. For Anderson, it’s a big move, and not only in terms of lead-ing the Reform Jew-ish temple. It’s also a literal move across the coun-try from Los Angeles, where a religious awakening drew him from the high-tech business world into religious studies.

“Th is is a second career for me. I was out in Silicon Valley for the ’90s,” said Anderson.

Originally from the Bos-ton area, he moved to the West Coast to create such tech fi rms as Monday Technology Solu-tions. But about 15 years ago, his life changed.

“I had an epiphany of sorts,” Anderson said. “I really want-ed to devote my time and life to Judaism and the Jewish people and God.”

After fi ve years of rabbin-ical schooling at New York’s Hebrew Union College, he re-turned to the West Coast as a rabbi at L.A.’s Stephen S. Wise

Temple, one of the country’s largest.

More recently, he looked around the country for a tem-ple where he could take on the bigger responsibility as senior rabbi. Temple Emanu-El was the right fi t.

“I was ready to take a real leadership position, and [I] love Atlan-ta,” Anderson said, adding that Temple Emanu-El “seems to emanate a great good.”

He and wife, Marita, have three children. “We like the idea of raising our family here,” Anderson said.

At the Stephen S. Wise Temple, ac-cording to its web-

site, Anderson created some innovative programs. Th ey in-cluded “Kehillat Wise,” where congregation members pro-vided pro-bono expert advice and talents to one another in the wake of the economic cri-sis, and “Daditude,” a group for fathers to spend time with the pre-school-aged children.

Anderson said one of his goals at Temple Emanu-El is boosting social-justice involve-ment, especially in the wake of the Charleston church murders. “I think Jewish relations with the African American commu-nity is really important,” he said. “Th ere’s a real need to re-connect us in strong ways real-ly quickly.”

But fi rst things fi rst: “Box-es to unpack and sermons to write,” Anderson said.

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Police issue citations, warnings to speeders on Tilly Mill Road

Council members question cost of winning ‘bike-friendly’ label


Dunwoody police joined forces with a pedestrians advocate group to slow drivers on Tilly Mill Road and make the area safer for walking.

On July 16, officers wrote 12 citations and issued three warnings during a special detail on the road, where the speed limit is 35 mpg, but drivers hit speeds as high as 55 mph, department spokesman Officer Tim Fecht said.

“We’re just trying to get people to slow down and, hopefully, become more observant of crosswalks,” Fecht said.

The speeding crackdown was planned in conjunc-tion with a “Slow Down, Save Lives” initiative started in March by PEDS, a metro Atlanta advocate for pe-destrians.

Through the initiative, multiple speed and crosswalk enforcement operations are being conducted through-out the metro area and yellow “Slow Down!” signs are being posted by concerned citizens who want safer streets in their residential areas, Fecht said.

About four pedestrians a day are hit by drivers in metro Atlanta, and Dunwoody officers targeted speed-ing drivers along Tilly Mill Road because the area has high rates of pedestrian crashes, he said.

Speed is a crucial factor in how likely someone is to survive if hit by a car, Fecht said.

About a month or two ago, an officer dressed up like a civilian tried to cross the major intersection at Tilly Mill Road and Andover Drive, Fecht said. “We had several citations that day,” he said. “People just flat-

out won’t stop or he’d get halfway across the intersec-tion and then oncoming cars would not let him finish [crossing],” Fecht said.

Ever since re-paving Tilly Mill Road, Fecht said peo-

ple drive like “it’s a nice drag strip,” and many people who live in the subdivisions have a hard time exiting—especially to turn left, he said.

“So we’ve been out here consistently trying to slow people down,” Fecht said.

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a bicycle, but also is a peaceful and safe place to live.

But Councilman John Heneghan said he wants to see a citizen survey of public interest and support for more bi-cycle-friendly amenities before city offi-cials include them in the next city bud-get.

Deutsch said she wondered wheth-er the community surveys should have been completed be-fore making a presen-tation to the council.

City Planner Re-becca Keefer said the report comes as part of the city’s sustain-ability action plan. Methods for imple-menting recommendations made by the bicycle coalition will be discussed at the sustainability committee’s August re-treat. She said the sustainability com-mittee would also work at the retreat to resolve who would be responsible for approaching local businesses with incen-tives to become more bike-friendly.

“We don’t expect the assessment it-self will be adopted by City Council,” Keefer said. Rather, the members of the

sustainability committee hope to incor-porate some of the ideas into the trans-portation plan, she said.

City Councilman Doug Thompson, a bike enthusiast himself, said city offi-cials should continue building multi-use trails to connect different parts of Dun-woody. The majority of Dunwoody res-

idents simply don’t feel comfortable rid-ing on the streets, he said, but they will take their families on a multi-use trail.

“Dunwoody is just beginning to reach the point of be-ing ready to apply for Bike-Friendly Com-munity recognition,” Weber said.

He noted strengths in Dunwoody such as an “ac-tive citizenry” and a well-regarded po-lice department, but said weaknesses in-clude many roads’ narrow rights of way and the lack of a programming body.

Weber said opportunities for im-provement in Dunwoody exist in areas such as expanding safe routes to school.

“A quick and easy win” for the city would be to train police officers on bike laws and safety, Weber said.

ELLEN ELDRIDGE

Officer Christopher Irwin uses radar to judge the speed of cars traveling on Tilly Mill Road.

“Dunwoody is just begin-ning to reach the point of being ready to apply for Bike-Friendly Com-munity recognition.”

– JOHANN WEBER

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dle schools in California. After her fam-ily moved to Georgia, she said she start-ed asking questions.

“I didn’t understand why there weren’t smaller school systems,” she said.

She said she quickly learned 49 of the 50 states have fl exibility in creating smaller school systems, but even when DeKalb County nearly lost its accredita-tion recently, Dunwoody was prevented by the state Constitution from creating its own system.

“DeKalb County was unable to meet the individual needs of its students,” she said. “You’d hear a lot of chatter with-out any eff ort put into solving the real problems, and with a district this big, they were solving it from a top-down approach, and that’s not going to work.”

In a district with 100 schools, meet-ing the needs of the students is impossi-ble, she said.

“DeKalb has a one-size-fi ts-all policy and that’s frustrating,” she said.

Th e curriculum in DeKalb Coun-ty Schools failed to meet the needs for Harris’ daughters, she said. One daugh-ter is gifted and the other has dyslexia.

“We had a choice of two curriculums to meet 100,000 students’ needs,” Har-ris said, and her daughters had unique needs that would have been met in a smaller school system, she said.

Harris recently pulled her girls out

of public school and began home-schooling them so she could give them her 100 percent attention, she said. She plans to enroll her 5-year-old twin boys in public school and “see how it goes,” she said.

“Historically, the top-ranked school systems in the state are city school sys-tems,” Dunwoody Mayor Mike Davis said. “We know what works, so why not support and educate people on a poten-tial bill which promotes quality educa-tion and system improvements?”

Opponents cite increased bureaucra-cy and increased cost, but Harris said a right-sized system is most benefi cial fi -nancially.

“If you have a right-sized school sys-tem you actually see an economic ben-efi t,” she said. “Th ere is such a thing as too large, where you lose the fi nancial advocacy.”

GLASS plans to use donations con-tributed to an online fundraising plat-form at gofundme.com to create and distribute information to legislators, Wescott said. A fundraiser also is sched-uled for McKendrick’s Steak House in August.

“Across the board, people are start-ing to understand that business as usu-al in Georgia is not good business,” Har-ris said. “And right now education needs to be at the forefront of our policy de-cisions.”

ELLEN ELDRIDGE

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President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law on Aug. 6, 1965. Th e land-mark legislation remade politics in the southern United States by ensuring that members of minori-ty groups could not be prohibited from voting. Th e U.S. Department of Justice says on its website that the act “has been called the single most eff ective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress.”

Dr. Kendra A. King Momon, a professor of politics at Oglethorpe University, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta), who as a civil rights activist played an important role in events leading to the pas-sage of the legislation, off er their insights on the Voting Rights Act’s 50th anniversary.

As we approach 50 years since the passing of the historic and landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, I believe it remains the best of times and the worst of times for African Ameri-cans in the U.S.

It is the best of times in that over the past 50 years an un-precedented number of African Americans have been elected to local, state and national offi ce.

It is the best of times in that African Americans are being recognized on and off the fi eld for their immeasurable eco-nomic, educational, political, social and cultural contribu-tions to the world house.

And, it is the best of times as cities like Atlanta - with a strong African American populous - continues to draw and at-tract international acclaim, businesses and residents.

It is the worst of times, however, as 50 years after the pas-sage of the Voting Rights Act, African Americans have not been fully protected, nor have their rights been fully extended.

It is the worst of times as black churches are being burned down and black lives are being shot down in houses of wor-ship.

And, it is the worst of times as racial, economic, social and cultural antipathy rises exponentially both here and abroad.

Still, I remain hopeful that positive redress will abound. In my book “African American Politics,” I detail the tenuous journey of African Americans to secure the right to vote.

From the violence-fi lled “Bloody Sunday” attack on many,

including two of our state’s beloved sons – U.S. Rep. John Lewis and Rev. C. T. Vivian - to Dr. Martin L. King Jr.’s “Give Us Th e Ballot” speech – the past 50 have not been an easy course of navigation.

Yet, the aff ects and eff ects of these collective eff orts are undeni-able. We are a better people and a better nation because of the cour-age our known and unknown lead-ers had to rewrite the law to em-power those previously excluded due to xenophobia and man-made laws.

As we take time to refl ect on this momentous occasion, I humbly submit that the time is ripe for a recommitment to the eradication of extensions of the law and full fl edge Voting Rights for all of America’s citizens.

Moreover, I humbly submit that the time is ripe to look be-yond voting rights to economic rights for the “least of Amer-ica’s children.”

Dr. Kendra A. King Momon is an associate professor of poli-tics in the division of history, politics and international studies at Oglethorpe University. She also is director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership Program.

Refl ect yes, but work still needs to be done

DR. KENDRA A. KING MOMON

GUEST COLUMN

DR. KENDRA A.

Across the country, there is a deliberate, systematic attempt to make it harder and more diffi cult for the disabled, students, seniors, minorities, poor and rural voters to participate in the democratic process. We must not let that happen.

Th at is why we need to repair and restore the Voting Rights Act now more than ever before. Th e burden should not be placed on citizens whose rights are violated to mount their own defense.

As leaders of this Congress, we have the power to change that. We can make access to the ballot box more simple and more fair. Th e right to vote is the most powerful, nonviolent tool we have in a democratic society.

My own mother, father, grandparents and great-grandpar-ents could not register to vote. My father died before he was ever able to cast a vote in this country. We must not slip back to that dark past. We have to throw off the burden of fear, and continue to move forward.

As leaders of this country, we have a moral obligation to repair the Voting Rights Act. It is our duty in a democratic society to open up the political process and let every citizen have a say in their own future.

Th at is something every Ameri-can and all of us here in the Con-gress can agree upon. We must do this now, and we must do it on our watch. It is what the people of this country deserve. Th ank you.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis represents the Georgia’s Fifth District, which in-cludes portions of Buckhead and Brookhaven.

Rep. John Lewis: Repair the Voting Rights Act

U.S. REP. JOHN LEWIS

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Cigar lounges offer relaxation and celebrity glamour

BY JOHN RUCHOn a quiet, early afternoon at Churchill Fine Cigars in

Sandy Springs, owner Shafi Hai showed off some of the shop’s luxurious features. Th e smoking lounge with plush dark-leather couches beneath a mural of Winston Churchill and Cuban scenes. Th e cedar-paneled, walk-in humidor stocked with hard-to-fi nd premium cigars.

He demonstrated the private lockers where regulars can store their smokes, and pointed out one with a brass name-plate reading, “Dr. Jay’s.”

“You know—Dr. J?” he asked.Yep, the Dr. J—pro basketball legend Julius Erving, a

Sandy Springs resident who frequently visits Churchill and shares a smoke with fellow cigar connoisseurs.

With this old-school social club atmosphere and occa-sional celebrity glamour, the cigar lounge business is on the rise in the metro north area.

Hai claims to have pioneered the shop-and-smoking-lounge concept in Georgia 20 years ago with his Scottish To-bacco stores in Buckhead and Rockdale County. He opened Churchill in 2013 to pick up Sandy Springs customers. And Davidoff of Geneva—a Swiss luxury brand that recently marketed a $500 cigar—is about to open a store and lounge in the Buckhead Atlanta complex.

Cigars had a renaissance as a luxury item in the economic boom of the early 1990s. Th e magazine “Cigar Afi cionado” launched, highlighting such cigar-loving superstars as Sylves-ter Stallone and Pierce Brosnan.

At the same time, health laws banning public smok-ing were on the rise, inspiring specialty cigar bars and cigar lounges that were exempt. (Th e Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to warn that ci-gar-smoking raises the risk of cancer, gum disease and other illnesses.) Such laws took a while to reach the Atlanta area, but have played a role in the cigar lounge trend.

Dantanna’s, the upscale sports bar and restaurant in Buck-head, opened the adjacent Buckhead Cigar Lounge 10 years ago in response to the smoking restrictions.

“We had many very good regulars who were cigar-smok-

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Shafi Hai, owner of Churchill Fine Cigars in Sandy Springs, opened his store in 2013. The shop features a smoking lounge with leather

couches, a cedar-paneled, walk-in humidor and private lockers.


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Th e restaurant turned to a group of those custom-ers, led by Mike Turrentine, to transform the former private dining room into a stand-alone cigar shop

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Properties, Bill Hollett is responsible for a number of the company’s Class A offi ce properties in metro At-lanta. He has more than 28 years of experience leasing, managing or operating commercial offi ce properties.

Reporter Newspapers recently posed some questions to him about the offi ce market in the Perimeter area. Here are his answers.

Q What is the current status of the o� ce market in the Perimeter area? How big is the market?

How big should it be?

A Th e Central Perimeter submarket is very healthy as a result of strong absorption of offi ce space

during the past three years. CoStar lists the submarket as a 34-million-square-foot market (with 83 Class A buildings containing approximately 22 million square feet). Th e class A vacancy rate has fallen below 10 per-cent for the fi rst time since 2000 and new speculative offi ce development could commence in the next year.

Q Is there demand for all types of o� ce space, or is the demand centered on Class A space or on

new o� ce developments, such as those for State Farm and Mercedes?

A It is a combination of both: a) demand for exist-ing class A space still signifi cantly outpaces the

other classes of existing space in absorption and b) as you noted, fi rms such as State Farm and Mercedes have chosen new developments for a campus environment on available parcels of land that are well located in prox-

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Q What’s happening to rents?

A Rents in the class A offi ce market have increased by approximately 25 percent in the past three

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Q How does the Perimeter market � t into the overall metro Atlanta market now? How has

that changed over time?

A Th e Central Perimeter market has always been a logical consideration for companies that have

larger employee bases that reside in the northern half of the metro area and also service clients on the north side of Atlanta. Examples include fi ve Fortune 1000 com-panies, plus Veritiv, Cox Communications and Mer-cedes of North America have all chosen the submarket for their headquarters location. Since the early 2000s when MARTA opened the Sandy Springs and North Springs stations, the Perimeter CID successfully worked to make signifi cant infrastructure changes on the roads leading to the highways and throughout the submarket (such as the Ashford-Dunwoody diverging diamond project, the Hammond interchange and Perimeter Center Parkway fl yover). In addition, the increased walkability from sidewalks and crosswalks has convert-ed the community into a more urban submarket that emphasizes walkability and proximity to retail, restau-rants, hotels and residential.

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CSM Bakery Solu-tions, a company with or-igins in the Netherlands, will relocate its global head-quarters to Sandy Springs, creating 120 jobs and in-vesting more than $5.5 million, Gov. Nathan Deal announced July 21. Th e company produces a broad range of bakery ingredients, products and services.

By moving its global headquarters to Sandy Springs, CSM will consolidate sever-al regional functions into one centralized location. Th e transition will generate a total employment in Georgia of more than 800. Th ese new and relocating employees will serve the company in an array of areas, including senior leadership, sales, marketing, business development, administration and other support positions.

With revenues of approximately $3 billion and more than 45,000 global custom-ers, CSM employs more than 8,500 people around the world and off ers a broad port-folio of well-recognized brands supported and developed from its eight innovation centers.

“We’re very grateful to the state of Georgia and the city of Sandy Springs for their collective eff orts and generosity in helping to bring CSM Bakery Solutions’ glob-al headquarters to the Atlanta area,” CSM President and CEO Robert Sharpe said. “Critical in our decision were the area’s transportation infrastructure, schools, cost and quality of housing and business-friendly atmosphere – all in support of our mul-ticultural workforce.”

Swiss fashion label Akris will open a new boutique in Buck-head Atlanta in September. Th e boutique will off er luxury goods for women, including accessories and handbags.

Th e Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC) has announced that � omas J. Cunningham has joined the organization’s lead-ership team as chief economist. Cunningham comes to MAC following a 30-year career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as vice president, se-nior economist and regional executive.

Bennett � rasher LLP has entered into an agreement to move its operations to three fl oors of Riverwood 200, a proposed 12-story Class A high-rise in the Cumberland Gal-leria area. Bennett Th rasher currently is headquartered nearby at One Overton Park on Cumberland Boulevard. With the move, the fi rm will expand its space to 62,500 square feet from 50,000 square feet, while retaining a location near the northwest interchange of I-75 and I-285. Th e move is scheduled for May 2017.

Construction Resources has opened Buckhead Cambria Gallery at 3096 Roswell

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Homewood Suites by Hilton Atlanta/Perimeter Center, an all-suite extended-stay hotel chain, will open later this year at 915 Crestline Road. Th e 114-unit hotel is within walking distance of the Sandy Springs MARTA station.

Eddie Bauer is planning a new store at Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, according to Tomorrow’s News Today. Th e new store will be on the upper level of the Macy’s wing in the former Sephora space. Th e store will be about 5,500 square feet and is slated to open in early 2016.

Th e Atlanta Braves and concert promoter Live Nation have announced they will resurrect the Roxy Th eatre in the mixed-used development that will surround the new baseball stadium, SunTrust Park. Th e 4,000-capacity venue will host music and com-edy acts. Th e last incarnation of the Roxy was located in Buckhead Village and is now known as Buckhead Th eatre.

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Cigar lounges offer relaxation and celebrity glamour

Scottish Tobacco in Buckhead takes the club concept a step further. Its Sinan Lounge is a private area with country-club-style rates of $500 to $1,000 a year. It includes access to printers, copiers and a fax machine for business meetings.

Cigar-lovers with a more modest budget, or who lean toward more of a neighborhood-hangout atmosphere, have options, too.

Dunwoody Cigars and Lounge in Dunwoody has the laid-back vibe one might expect from a place bought by a former customer. On a recent Friday af-ternoon, owner Jay Markow-itz relaxed on a cream-col-ored leather sofa, watching golf on a giant TV. A group of lawyers came in to play some poker over cigars and cut Markowitz in.

Markowitz is a Sandy Springs res-ident whose main work is serving as a partner in a company that manufac-tures prosthetic breasts for women who have mastectomies. A longtime custom-er of Dunwoody Cigars, he bought out the owner about 3 1/2 years ago, when it seemed like it might close.

“We were a bunch of buddies who used to come here and hang out,” Mar-kowitz said. “We didn’t want to lose the clubhouse.”

He and wife Mei now operate the lounge, which includes a walk-in humi-dor, a large back room and private ci-gar lockers.

At Churchill, Hai is proud that he recently won the hard-to-earn right to carry the Davidoff brand, whose ci-

gars come wrapped in a paper-thin slice of cedar wood for freshness. He boasts of such famous customers as Atlanta-based comedian Steve Harvey and legendary actor Robert De Niro, who once spent four hours with him at Scottish Tobacco.

“You don’t make a lot of money, but you make a lot of connections,” Hai said of the cigar business.

Someone’s making money, howev-er. At Churchill, some cigars had price tags north of $20 each. Asked what a fi rst-timer can expect to spend at a cigar lounge, Hai smiled and politely shook

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cigars, there are no picky rules about en-joying them. A lounge is selling not just a cigar, but also the sociability and pa-tience the slow-burning items require.

“It doesn’t matter how you hold [the cigar], how you smoke,” Hai said. “It’s if you enjoy your company—that’s what matters.”

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Toddler TimeTuesday, July 28, 11-11:30 a.m. – Bring your little ones to a storytime for toddlers aged 2-3 years old at the Brookhaven Library. Th e event in-cludes storytelling, fi ngerplaying, rhymes and songs all targeted to the developmental needs of toddlers. Park behind library and enter through the low-er level. Free and open to the fi rst 20 participants. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. For more information, go online to dekalblibrary.org or call 404-848-7140.

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The Mighty Thor Movie� ursday, July 30, 2:30-4:30 p.m. – Th e Buckhead Branch Library presents their Summer Super Movies in July series, featuring a two-hour PG-13 movie centering on the epic adventures and legends of Th or. Th e story follows a powerful and ar-rogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an an-

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Saturday, August 1. – It’s nearly back to school time, and what better way to round out a humid and hot summer season than with a pool party! All Brookhaven city pools will be open and will have live music, food and children’s activities to provide one more day of fun in the sun before classes re-sume. Th ere will also be tables set up at the Lyn-wood Park and Briarwood Park locations to receive donations of back to school supplies. Everyone who brings donations will be entered into a raffl e for a prize. Free with general pool admission; rates vary per location. Murphey Candler Park Pool, 1551 W. Nancy Creek Dr., NE, Brookhaven, 30319; Briarwood Park Pool, 2235 Briarwood Way, NE, Brookhaven, 30329; Lynwood Park Pool, 3360 Osborne Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319. For more information, go online to brookhavenga.gov or call 404-637-0500.

Firefl y HikeSaturday, August 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m. –Watch the last glow of summer on a night hike at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve. Catching fi refl ies, also known as lightning bugs, is a summer tradition. Th e event begins with making your own bug catch-ers and is followed by a guided hike down a wooded trail as evening falls. Night activities and cold treats will round out the evening. Tickets: adults, $10; children, $5. Space is limited, RSVP in advance by phone, in person during Monday through Fri-day visiting hours, or by mail. Blue Heron Nature Preserve, 4055 Roswell Rd., NE, Atlanta, 30342. For more information and to download the forms for mailed registration, go online to bhnp.org or call 404-345-1008.

Teen Writing & Photography Contests� rough Saturday, August 1. – Calling all teen photographers and writers! Th e Sandy Springs Library is currently accepting entries for two contests, one for photography and one for creative writing. Pho-tography submissions must be in digital format, taken within the past two years, and be original work created by the contestant. Writing submissions must be no more than 250 words, sub-mitted digitally in Microsoft Word format, and the topic is real-life heroes. Contest is open to all Fulton County residents and students in Fulton County schools aged 12 to 18; limit

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Fiesta for Wishes!Thursday, July 30, 7 p.m. – Make-A-Wish Georgia celebrates their 20-year anni-versary with an evening of Tex-Mex food at the grand reopening of Ray’s Rio Bravo. Spe-cial guest Debbie Tilman, founder of the Geor-gia Make-A-Wish Chapter, will be in atten-dance for the event. Tickets start at $25. Rio Bravo, 6450 Powers Ferry NW, Sandy Springs, 30339. For more information and to purchase tickets, go online to raysriobravo.com or call 770-580-9342.

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Sunday, August 2, 4 p.m. – Th is live dance and music performance brings to life the stories and traditions of Old Russia. Utilizing tradition-al Russian folk instruments, dances and vocals, this event is suitable for audiences of all ages. Buf-fet- style dinner follows the concert in the Fellow-ship Hall. Dunwoody United Methodist Church, 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go to dunwoodyumc.org or call 770-394-0675.

Concerts by the SpringsSunday, August 2, 7-8:30 p.m. – Local band Th e Return performs, part of the Sandy Springs Concerts by the Springs series at Heritage Green. Th is Beatles tribute band is a lively throwback to original songs and is known for their resemblance to the original band members. In its 19th year, this annual concert series is held one Sunday evening each month through September. Free and open to the public. Suitable for all ages. Sandy Springs Soci-ety Entertainment Lawn, 6110 Bluestone Rd., San-dy Springs, 30328. For more information, go online to sandyspringsga.org or call 404-851-9111.

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Artists in the WildTuesday, July 28, 10 a.m. – Painters, sketchers, and pastelists will fi nd picturesque spots throughout the Chattahoochee Nature Center grounds to set up and make art. Th is weekly event allows guests to in-teract with the artists while they create original art-work en plein air. Free for members and with gen-eral admission. Chattahoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. For more information, go to chattnaturecenter.org or call 770-992-2055.

Dunwoody Sunday CycleSunday, August 2, 3 p.m. – Join the community for a 4.5-mile, mostly right turns, community bike ride through Dunwoody Vil-lage. This family-friendly ride is suitable for all ages and abilities, with a shorter route de-tour for younger riders or less mobile riders to take after the group start. Riders 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult, and all cy-clists must wear a helmet to participate. This event is weather-permitting, and will not take place in inclement weather or hazardous con-ditions. Paritipants will gather at 2:30 p.m. Village Burger, 1426 Dunwoody Village Pkwy, Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, go to bikewalkdunwoody.org.

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National Night OutTuesday, August 4, 6-8 p.m. – Join the Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Brookhaven Police De-partments for an annual community-building event promoting positive interactions between police and the communities they serve. Personnel and displays from the three agencies, food, games and family activities make this event an educational and enjoyable campaign to build neighborhood ca-maraderie. Free and open to the public; suitable for all ages. Perimeter Mall, 4400 Ashford-Dun-woody Rd., Dunwoody, 30346. For more information, go to dunwoodyga.gov or call 678-382-6700.

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A legacy of art at SpruillBY ISADORA PENNINGTON

“Everything will be OK,” proclaims the big, bold sign on the old seed house at the corner of Ashford-Dunwoody Road and Meadow Lane Road.

The simple mural was originally paint-ed by local artist Jason Kofke at the Spruill homestead for the 2009 Emerging Artists exhibit. The message has since become a staple of the Spruill ideology, an arts or-ganization which by all accounts is indeed doing just fine.

On August 8, the Spruill Gallery and Historic Home will open its doors from 1 to 4 p.m. for a party to cel-

ebrate the 40th anniversary of the Spruill Center for the Arts.

The exhibition, juried by Saskia Ben-jamin of ART PAPERS, features works made by students and faculty at the Spruill Center for the Arts. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, glass, metalwork and encaus-tics, and reflects the variety of courses available at the center.

The Aug. 8 event will feature live music, art activities, chalk murals, food, beverages and 100 works by 71 artists on display.

The Spruill Gallery is located in a quaint Victorian building known as the Spruill Homeplace in Dunwoody. Orig-inally built as a home for the Spruill family in the 1860s, the building has gone through its fair share of chang-es throughout the years. In 1993, the building was relocated to the prominent corner where it now sits and opened as an art gallery and gift shop.

Just over a mile down the road from the Gallery is the Spruill Center for the Arts. The center occupies one wing of the build-ing which also houses the Dunwoody Li-brary and Stage Door Players.

The long hallway of the center is lined with students’ artwork, and during the summer months, the walls are usually plastered with art by students in summer

camp. Groups of energetic and chattering kids file down the hall between activities while adults work studiously in quiet class-es in adjoining rooms.

Because classes are not accredited and the students don’t work toward any de-grees, there are no final exams, there’s no pressure, and the students who participate have a genuine love for making art. Classes are offered at a variety of times during the week and throughout the weekend.

The center works with the gallery to put together an annual exhibition of works by students and faculty in the Spruill home-stead.

Robert Kinsey, CEO of the Spruill Center for the Arts for nearly 12 years, has a deep affinity for the institution.

“The people who are here want to be here,” he said of the center’s students.

Kinsey himself has a fairly eclectic and varied taste in art. His office walls are cov-ered in artwork, many of which he has purchased from students.

Though his background prior to work-ing with the center was in the corporate world, art has been a large part of Kinsey’s life for many years. A client he knew who worked at IBM decided to change careers and open a gallery in Buckhead, an act

that inspired Kinsey to begin collecting. “I’ve grown to be a little bit of an art ad-

dict,” he laughed, glancing around his of-fice and all the artwork on the walls.

It is not only Kinsey who has benefited from being among artists and artwork in his career. Clare Callahan, the marketing and PR coordinator for the center, has also found artistic inspiration at work.

“It’s a wonderful place to work,” Calla-han gushed. “It’s a wonderful place to be.”

Since she started working at the cen-ter last year, she has stepped outside of her comfort zone and has taken a variety of art classes from calligraphy to glasswork. Cal-lahan’s role has expanded to include social media, catalogues, promotions and most recently, a new website.

“Most people who know about us have heard about us from someone else,” she said, but in today’s world it’s also necessary to keep with the times and modern technology.

Events like the annual Student & Faculty Juried Exhibition in August pro-vide another important avenue through which the Spruill Center and Gallery promote themselves and engage with the community.

Jennifer Price, director of the Spruill

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The famous mural on the Spruill property by Jason Kofke.

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Robert Kinsey, CEO of the Spruill Center for the Arts, is an avid art lover.

At left, Amy Rowe works on her hand-sculpted artwork in a classroom. At right, work by kids currently taking art classes is on display in the hall.

The Spruill Gallery is located at 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody and can be reached at 770-394-4019. The Spruill Center for the Arts is located at 5339 Chamblee- Dunwoody Road in Dunwoody and can be reached at 770-394-3447.

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Gallery, expressed appreciation not only for the ability to work with so many lo-cal artists, but also for the opportunity to do so within the historic building. “It is a challenge to recreate the space for the gal-lery’s various exhibits and events but when done successfully, there is no environment more inspirational,” Price said.

Other yearly events include the Jewelry Market, Pottery & Art Sale, Ceramic Bowl Sale, Holiday Artist Market, in addition to a number of gallery exhibitions.

For more information on the Spruill Center for the Arts, the Spruill Gallery, and their upcoming events go online to their website at spruilarts.org.

Student & Faculty Juried ExhibitionWhen: Through Aug. 8Where: Spruill Gallery, 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd.Admission is free.

Here are the winners of the 2015 student and faculty juried art show: • Best in Show - Lauren Adams, painting

instructor; Lace Collar, acrylic • Best Instructor - Kathy Walton, sculpture

instructor, String Side Chair, recycled steel • Best Student - Lucy Pittman, painting

student, Oignons de Printemp, oil • Honorable Mention - Sharon Weiss, pastel

instructor, Gala Occasion, pastel • Honorable Mention - Martha Fitzmier,

metalsmithing student, Serving Spoon with Snapdragon Tessellation Handle, sterling silver

• Honorable Mention - Joan Weiss, painting student, Fiori a Metri, acrylic

• People’s Choice - Renee Adams, metalsmithing student, Polka Dot Passion, silver & copper bimetal, amethyst

Above, gallery director Jennifer Price. At top

right, the Spruill Gallery as it appears today.

Bottom right, the current show features works by 71 local artists.

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Two Renaissance masters’ ideas on display side by side

BY MARY HELEN KELLYUntil recently, the shopping cen-

ter storefront housed an arts and crafts shop. But this summer, it’s home to a diff erent sort of art and creation.

Th e “Discover DaVinci and Michel-angelo: Side by Side” exhibit currently on display at the Perimeter Pointe shop-ping center in Dunwoody shows repro-ductions or models of works by the two Renaissance artists side by side.

Mark Rodgers, the exhibit’s director, says many people don’t realize Michel-angelo and Leonardo DaVinci lived at about the same time. Rodgers said the idea of displaying the works of the two artists together was his idea. He said the exhibit is trying to look at the Renais-sance from a “whole artist perspective.”

“We want everyone that comes to the exhibit to not only refl ect on what these two men did in their lives, but we want to inspire each individual to discov-er their own ‘inner DaVinci and inner Michelangelo’ to bring their lives to the next level,” Rodgers said. “Th at is truly the message.”

Genius Productions, a nonprof-it company based in St. Louis, brought the exhibit to Dunwoody, which is the fi nal stop on the exhibit’s journey across North America. It has been displayed over the past 4 1/2 years at locations in Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis and Bra-denton, Fla., Rodgers said.

At the end of October, the exhibit is scheduled to return to its home at the Museum of Leonardo DaVinci in Flor-ence, Italy, he said.

Included in the exhibit are licensed reproductions of the artists’ works and models of machines based on drawings. At the exhibit, visitors will see a casting of Michelangelo’s Pieta as well as one of the head of the statue of David.

Visitors also will fi nd over 60 hand-

crafted models of DaVinci’s inventions. Th e models are interactive and visitors are invited to use them and see how they work.

Th ere is also a special children’s area where kids are invited to rebuild a mod-el of DaVinci’s portable footbridge or color paintings by Michelangelo.

Th e exhibit can be experienced through a docent-guided tour or audio tour available on smartphones. Both are included in the price of admission. Vid-eos that elaborate on certain aspects of the exhibit are also played throughout the day.

Rodgers said that although the art-ists were born more than fi ve centuries ago, modern visitors could relate to their work.

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These ‘buddies’ bond over a good bookBY MARY HELEN KELLY

Last spring, Les Fuchs dropped by Lake Forest Elementary School one day every week. Th e retired Delta Air Lines pilot would meet fourth grader Sair Ba-nos, and the two of them would head to the school library to read during the stu-dent’s lunch period.

Fuchs read aloud from “James and Th e Giant Peach,” by Roald Dahl, a book Sair chose at the start of the spring semes-ter. Fuchs would read as Sair ate lunch.

As they worked through the book, Fuchs would ask questions: Did Sair know the meaning of diffi cult words? Did he know the location of events from the story? If not, Fuchs would explain the words or identify the places.

“I love to read myself. And it makes a huge diff erence in a young person’s life if they develop a love of reading,” Fuchs said.

Th e two were paired through the Reading Buddies program created by the Sandy Springs Education Force. Th rough the program, a volunteer reads with a student for 30 minutes every week.

Th e SSEF brings the program to a

principal at a school, fi nds volunteers, coordinates the schedule, and works with the students the school identifi es as candidates for the program.

Th e program currently operates at Lake Forest Elementary and Ison Springs Elementary. Th e program is looking to

expand next year. To volunteer or learn more, contact the Sandy Springs Edu-cation Force at: san-dyspringseducation-force.org.

Th is year marked Fuchs’ fi rst experience with the program. He came to look forward to the weekly meetings. He said he wasn’t sure exact-ly how he and Sair had been paired, but having a granddaughter the same age as the student helped him relate to the boy.

Fuchs said the program is about more than just reading. It is also about the vol-unteers’ interactions with the students and “helping them to develop an appre-ciation and love of reading.” He said he gained as much from the experience as Sair did.

Fuchs recalls one day where part of the story took place in England. Fuchs grabbed a globe and showed Sair the re-lationship between Atlanta and England

to make the story come to life.

Th ey talked about common in-terests such as roll-er blading and ice-skating.

At one point, the pair got on the sub-ject of Australia and its indigenous ani-mals. A short time later, Fuchs traveled to Australia and mailed Sair a post-card showing some of the continent’s unique creatures.

Sair recalled the postcard when he spoke at SSEF’s an-nual breakfast in May about his ex-perience reading with Fuchs. Irene Schweiger, execu-tive director of the nonprofi t, said Sair received a standing ovation after his talk, and that for weeks she got calls from people who had been moved by what he had to say.

Fuchs said that although the pair didn’t fi nish the book, they did spend

a lot of time bonding and developing Sair’s reading skills.

At the end of the semester Fuchs bought Sair a book about soccer, a sub-ject Sair enjoyed. Fuchs said he hoped that Sair would read the book over the summer.

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Left, volunteer Les Fuchs and student Sair Banos, with Lake Forest Elementary School Principal Harvey Oaxaca. Fuchs and Banos were part of the Reading

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It’s a breeze!The Sandy Springs Storm and Sandy Springs Cyclones 12U softball teams finished 1st and 2nd respectively in the ASA Rec/All-State Georgia State Championship. Members of both teams, front row, from left, Leland Eith, Amanda Foy, Averie Bielski, Katharine Linnihan, Morgan Scott, Alexandra Nava, Christian Cain, Avery Andrew, Second row, from left, Georgia Patterson, Molly Kotzin, Ashley Rohan, Caroline Chitlik, Sydney Kirksey, Mya Hassler. Third row, from left, Ella Cannon, Bella Dishman, Dani Nicholas, Jessica Hopper, Virginia Fuss, Marissa Goodman, Natalie Bernstein, Olivia Torri, Sarah Sims, Jamie Kornheiser, Kendall Slayden. Back, from left, coaches Mike Hopper, Ken Nicholas, Brian Linnihan, Morris Bernstein, Jonathan Worrell and Todd Rohan.

State champs!The Murphey Candler Blue Team won the 9- and 10-year-old Little League state championship on July 19, and next play in the Tournament of State Champions in N.C. Members include: Nate Chambers, Peyton Leonard, Leyton George, Will Hillegass, Dawson Stevens, Charlie Kapp, Dylan Reid, Adam Frederick, Tyler Sun, Tim Hillegass, Colton Jimenez, coaches Steve George, Jon LeDoyen, Tony Sun, Tim Hillegass.

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Local schools reopen in August. Here are their starting dates.

Aug. 5 – Atlanta Public SchoolsAug. 7 – St. Pius X Catholic SchoolAug. 10 – Atlanta Jewish Academy; DeKalb County schools; Fulton County schools, St. Jude Catholic School; Weber SchoolAug. 11 – Atlanta International SchoolAug. 12 – Atlanta Girls’ School; Holy Spirit Preparatory School; Mount Ver-non Presbyterian School Aug. 13 – St. Martin’s Episcopal SchoolAug. 17 – The Westminster Schools, grades 6-12Aug. 18 – Holy Innocents’ Episco-pal School; Lovett School; Pace Acade-my; The Westminster Schools, grades 1-5Aug. 19 – The Galloway SchoolAug. 24 – Brandon Hall SchoolAug. 26 – The Marist School

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Acadia Homes and Neighborhoods hopes to build 87 townhomes on 9.8 acres in Perimeter Center, behind City Hall and across the North Fork of Peachtree Creek from Georgetown.

Part of the property, a piece totaling 2.3 acres, will be donated to the city for a park. The space will also act as a buf-fer, separating neighborhoods and keep-ing wildlife close to the creek.

Attorney Den Webb told Dunwoody Homeowners Association members July 12 the project would not include a road to cross the creek and connect to Old Spring House Lane. He said it would be up to the city to develop a path or road across the creek.

The only way residents of the 87 townhomes will be able to access the de-velopment will be from Perimeter Cen-ter East, Webb said.

If the residents want trails or other amenities in the 2.3 acres, it would be up to the city to provide them. Webb said he believes the city plans more of a “passive park” because of the topog-raphy.

The Perimeter Center area is zoned for high-rise office buildings and is not part of the city designated for senior cit-izen housing, as is the Dunwoody Vil-lage area.

The Acadia Homes, like other recent townhome projects, are designed to be three-level units ranging from 2,300 to 2,900 square feet. Prices will start at about $500,000, said Nevel Allison of Acadia Homes.

“This will be a very upscale devel-opment,” Allison said. “There will be a pool and cabana in addition to our open green space in the middle.”

Four candidates, three of them Republicans, cam-paigned for the District 80 seat in the state House of Rep-resentatives. When votes in the July 14 election were count-ed, the sole Democrat led the field.

Democrat Taylor Bennett, an attorney and former Geor-gia Tech football player, will face Republican and former Brookhaven Mayor J. Max Davis in an Aug. 11 run-off election.

“I think that we performed so well in this district be-cause it’s not a ‘Republican district,’ it just happened to be held for a long time by an admirable Republican legislator in [former Rep. Mike] Jacobs,” Bennett said. “District 80 is an incredibly diverse, well-educated, rap-idly growing part of the metro area.”

Others argued that the Republican candidates split their party’s votes.

The district covers Brookhaven and parts of Sandy Springs, Chamblee and Dunwoody. But DeKalb Coun-ty voters in Georgia House District 80 went to the polls at a much higher rate and in much higher numbers than

their Fulton County counter-parts, returns from the July 14 election show.

Turnout in the DeKalb por-tion of the district reached near-ly 16 percent of the registered voters. In Sandy Springs, a mere 6 percent of the registered vot-ers made it to the polls. More than a quarter of the more than 30,000 registered voters in the

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Candidate Percent VotesTaylor J. Bennett (D) 36.84% 1,473J. Max Davis (R) 31.49% 1,259Catherine S. Bernard (R) 30.09% 1,203Loren Collins (R) 1.58% 63Total votes 3,998

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Dunwoody’s police department has recently earned awards for its creativity and its dedication to being “the best of the best,” as the executive director of the Geor-gia Association of Chiefs of Police puts it.

After announcing July 13 that the #WhyIWearTh e-Badge social media campaign won a Telly Award for its video, Chief Billy Grogan presented to the mayor and City Council Dunwoody’s state certifi cation from the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police. Grogan said the Dunwoody Police Department went through a rig-orous process to earn state certifi cation from the asso-ciation.

Frank Rotondo, the executive director of the Geor-gia Association of Chiefs of Police, told Mayor Mike Davis that Dunwoody should be proud of its accom-plishments. “Mr. Mayor, your city’s been a city about seven years, and you’ve really accomplished an awful lot,” Rotondo said. “It’s one of the best police depart-ments in the state of Georgia.”

Dunwoody is one of 118 police agencies to earn state certifi cation, which is about 17 percent of the to-tal existing agencies in Georgia that could try to get cer-tifi ed. Sandy Springs and Atlanta also earned state cer-tifi cation.

“All agencies are bestowed certifi cation by virtue of having a police agency,” Rotondo said. But this is a “special program” that establishes the people’s trust in the police department.

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From left, Sgt. Andrew Fondas, Frank Rotondo, executive director of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, Mayor Mike Davis and Police Chief Billy Grogan beam

after the city of Dunwoody was presented with state certifi cation from GACP.

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Police BlotterFrom police reports dated July 3

through July 15.

The following information was pulled from Dunwoody’s Police-to-Citizen Portal Event Search website and is presumed to be ac-

curate.

BURGLARY 100 block Perimeter Center West—On

July 3, burglary was reported.

1100 block of Hammond Drive—On July 10, burglary was reported.

4700 block of Eidson Road—On July 10, burglary was reported.

1800 block of Independent Square—On July 10, burglary was reported.

1700 block of Old Springhouse Lane—On July 10, burglary was reported twice.

First block of Perimeter Center Place—On July 11, burglary was reported.

4300 block of Georgetown Square—On July 13, burglary was reported.

AUTO THEFT 300 block of Perimeter Center North—

On July 7, a motor vehicle theft was re-ported.

First block of Dunwoody Park—On July 11, a motor vehicle theft was report-ed.

100 block of Azalea Garden Drive—On July 12, a motor vehicle theft was re-ported.

THEFT/LARCENY 4300 block of Ashford-Dun-

woody Road—On July 3, 4, 6, 9 and 15, shoplifting was reported and/or arrests were made.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 3, larceny from a building was re-ported; On July 4, 6, 8, 10 and 15, shoplifting was reported and/or arrests were made.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, shoplifting was re-ported and/or arrests were made.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On July 3, shoplifting was reported.

1800 block of Point Place Avenue—On July 3, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

100 block of Perimeter Center West—On July 6 and 7 reports of shoplifting were made.

5500 block of Trowbridge Road—On July 7, a report of articles stolen from a vehicle was made.

2400 block of Mount Vernon Road—On July 9, larceny was reported.

2300 block of North Peachtree Way—On July 12, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

1300 block of Wyntercreek Road—On July 12, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On July12, theft of articles from a vehi-cle was reported.

2400 block of Dunkerrin Lane—On July 13, theft of articles from a vehicle was reported.

4600 block of Peachtree Place Park-way—On July 14, larceny from a build-ing was reported and an arrest was made.

ASSAULT 6800 block of Peachtree-In-dustrial Boulevard—On July 4,

a simple assault was reported; On July 5, a simple assault and battery was reported.

2200 block of Dun-woody Crossing—On July 4, family battery was reported.

4400 block of Chown-ing Way—On July 5, family bat-

tery was reported; On July 6, an ar-rest was made for family battery.

4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 7, assault by intimida-tion was reported; On July 15, simple as-sault and battery was reported.

1800 block of Cotillion Drive—On July 8, assault by intimidation was re-ported.

4800 block of Twin Lakes Trail—On July 8, an arrest was made for simple as-

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4300 block of Ashford-Dun-woody Road—On July 3, 4,

Dunwoody Road—On July 3, larceny from a building was re-ported; On July 4, 6, 8, 10 and 15,

6800 block of Peachtree-In-dustrial Boulevard—On July 4,

a simple assault was reported;

ing Way—On July 5, family bat-tery was reported; On July 6, an ar-

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Dunwoody Police Blottersault and battery.

2100 block of Peachford Road—On July 9, simple assault and battery was re-ported.

2300 block of Dunwoody Crossing—On July 11, simple assault and battery was reported.

4600 block of Dunover Circle—On July 14, simple assault and bat-tery was reported.

First block of Perime-ter Center East—On July 15, an arrest was made for assault by intimidation.

FRAUD 4400 block of Ash-

ford-Dunwoody Road—On July 3, an arrest was made for cred-it fraud; On July 9, credit fraud was reported.

6200 block of Ashford Gables Drive—On July 7, fraud by worthless check was reported.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 8, fraud was reported.

5600 block of Brooke Ridge Drive—On July 8, fraud by swindle was reported.

200 block of Perimeter Center Park-way—On July 10, fraud was reported.

4000 block of Dunwoody Park—On July 10, credit fraud was reported.

First block of Perimeter Center East—On July 13, fraud was reported three times; On July 15, fraud was reported.

ARRESTS First block of Perimeter Center East—

On July 6, an arrest was made for failure to appear in court; On July 7, 9 and 11, arrests were made for violation of proba-tion and for failure to appear; On July 10, an arrest was made for DUI; On July 11, two arrests were made for possession of marijuana; On July 13, a wanted per-son was located and arrested.

4400 block of Ashford-Dun-woody Road—On July 5, three arrests were made for possession of marijuana; On July 8 and 10, arrests were made

for driving without a license.

4500 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On July 3, an arrest was made for DUI.

I-285 at Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 3, an arrest was made for driving while license was suspend-ed or revoked; an arrest was made for

obstruction and disorderly under the in-fl uence.

5600 block of Trowbridge Drive—On July 4, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 5 and 12, arrests were made for DUI.

3000 block of Peeler Road—On July 6, four arrests were made for driving while unlicensed.

4800 block of Happy Hollow Road—On July 7, a weapons off ense was report-ed and an arrest was made.

I-285 at North Peachtree Road—On July 7, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana; On July 9, an arrest was

made for driving while license was sus-pended or revoked.

1000 block of Redfi eld Terrace—On July 7, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana; On July 10, an arrest was made for DUI.

5800 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On July 9, an arrest was made for obstruction.

2000 block of Pernoshal Court—On July 11, an arrest was made for possession of marijuana.

4700 block of Vermack Road—On July 11, a wanted person was located and arrested.

I-285 at Peachtree-Industrial Boule-vard—On July 12, an arrest was made for DUI.

4600 block of Ridgeview Road—On July 12, a wanted person was located and arrested.

4400 block of Tilly Mill Road—On July 14, an arrest was made for driving

while unlicensed.

4700 block of North Peachtree Road—On July 15, an arrest was made for pos-session of marijuana.

OTHER 4400 block of Ashford-Dunwoody

Road—On July 4, criminal trespass was reported.

4700 block of Ashford-Dunwoody Road—On July 4, a report was made of cruelty to animals.

4400 block of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On July 5, a hit and run was re-ported.

10,400 block of Madison Drive—On July 5, damage to private property was re-ported.

4600 block of Ridgeview Road—On July 9, criminal trespass was reported.

I-285 at Chamblee-Dunwoody Road—On July 9, damage to private property was reported.


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