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City made up for lost time throughout 2021 By CATHY COBBS newsroom@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — If not much happened in 2020, the year 2021 more than made up for it. As the world emerged, then retreated, as the fallout from the world pandemic shifted, so did the city of Dunwoody. Major restrictions were lifted, then again reinstituted, but throughout the year, Dunwoody citizens, and its government, managed to keep moving forward with initiatives to improve life within the city’s borders. COVID-19 and its impact With virtually every city-sponsored event cancelled in 2020, the following year saw a cautious return to city traditions, as well as routine business. The city opened its parks in spring. City Council meetings allowed in-person attendance, while also continuing the option to follow the proceedings online. The city’s major events — Dunwoody Nature Center’s Butterfly Festival, the Dunwoody Arts Festival, Fourth of July Parade, Lemonade Days and Light Up Dunwoody — all returned to the calendar, albeit with modified schedules and COVID protocols in place. The relocation of the arts festival to Brook Run Park, which will be a permanent move, was lauded by organizers and spectators alike as a better option than its previous site on Dunwoody Village Parkway. Slowly but steadily, the Perimeter Center area saw a return of hotel visitors and shoppers, but officials cautioned that the recovery would not reach prepandemic numbers until 2023 or beyond. The slow trickle of workers returning to
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office space. By a narrow margin, the City Council approved a high-rise development at 84 Perimeter Center East to include retail development and 225 over-55 apartments. Council members Joe Seconder, Stacey Harris and Tom Lambert voted against the plan, while Mayor Lynn Deutsch, and council members John Heneghan, Jim Riticher and Pam Tallmadge supported the zoning that would allow for its construction. In other development-related matters, the council passed in October the long-discussed Dunwoody Village Overlay District
We enter 2022 feeling like we simply can’t shake the uncertainty created by Covid-19. Vaccines, boostDEUTSCH ers and new treatments are available or will be soon, and we know much more about managing this pandemic. Despite these complicated times, Dunwoody continued to move forward in 2021 with successes in public safety, parks, public works, and community and economic development. Public Safety remains our top priority. In order to attract the best and brightest to the Dunwoody Police Department, City Council approved a significant salary increase as well as providing excellent benefits. Ambulance response times, which had improved before the pandemic, have not returned to an acceptable level. We are working with DeKalb County Public Safety officials and our county commissioners on this important issue. A key takeaway from the pandemic is the importance of outdoor public space. We acquired new parkland and opened a new park in 2021. We will begin construction on a new park in Perimeter Center and are working on
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Santa greets children at Light Up Dunwoody’s annual event in November. the office was filled with stops and starts, with some organizations moving to permanent work-from-home arrangements and others offering staggered in-office shifts to allow for social distancing. Despite a murky economic outlook, plans for major projects moved toward realization. High Street, a 36-acre, mixeduse project that had been discussed for more than a decade, received funding in October, with construction expected to begin in earnest in 2022. The first phase of the project will include 150,000 square feet of entertainment-driven retail and restaurants, 600 luxury rental apartments, 90,000 square feet of loft office space and 222,000 square feet of existing
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Auto burglary reported on Perimeter Center Pkwy DUNWOODY, Ga. — An Alpharetta man notified police that someone had burglarized his 2019 Mercedes as it sat unattended overnight Dec. 8. The man said he left the car parked on Perimeter Center Parkway late Dec. 7 and did not return until late the next day. Police said the passenger side window had been shattered, and the owner advised that he noticed the glove box and center console had been rummaged. He said the only thing missing was his company iPad and $20 in cash. Police were unable to process the scene because the owner had cleaned up most of the mess by the time officers arrived.
DUNWOODY, Ga. — An employee with the Dunwoody Police Department filed a report that someone had stolen an Apple iPhone from the center console of their private car on Arrie Way sometime overnight on Dec. 12. Also missing was a personally owned Surefire flashlight. The phone, valued at $300, was entered onto NCIC as stolen.
Worker says he lost job after filing complaint DUNWOODY, Ga. — Police met with a former employee of Panera Bread Dec. 13 who said he had been fired because he reported threats made to him by another employee. The man said a coworker had made harassing threats in front of others. When he reported the incident to management, the man said no one took him
seriously. The next morning, he reported to work but no one would let him in the building. When he asked the manger on duty about allowing him inside, the manager stated it was because he’d accumulated too much overtime. He was notified he’d been fired on Dec. 12. Police said there was no evidence or witnesses supporting his claims, and the file was closed.
Woman reports fraud on her Netflix account
DUNWOODY, Ga. — A Kings Point Drive resident told police Dec. 14 that someone had logged into her Netflix account and changed her password. She said she also noticed that a credit card had been added to her Target app. She said she was concerned her personal information had been compromised and wanted the incident documented. As of the time of the report, the woman said there had been no fraudulent charges made to her credit accounts.
Roswell police arrest suspect minutes after bank robbery By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Less than 10 minutes after receiving a 911 call about an armed robbery at a Chase Bank in Roswell, police officers were able to locate the suspect walking down the street with thousands of dollars he allegedly stole from the bank. Joseph Matthews, 35, of Lithonia, was arrested Nov. 30 and transported to the Fulton County Jail. He was booked on charges of armed robbery. Roswell Police spokesman Tim Lupo said that shortly after 1 p.m., officers responded to the Chase Bank at 10515 Alpharetta St., where a bank teller told them that a suspect had entered the bank
and passed her a note indicating he had a gun and demanding a “large sum of cash.” According to the incident report, the note read, “I want $10,000. All hundreds. You have 3 minutes to give it to me. I have a gun. I will use it. Not playMATTHEWS ing no games. Thank you. Have a bless day.” After receiving $7,000, the suspect allegedly ran off on foot, but both the teller and bank manager were able to give the officers a detailed description of what he looked like, and they quickly set up a perimeter. Another employee located in a
back room of the bank called 911 while the robbery was taking place. Lupo said officers found Matthews a few minutes later matching the description the bank employees had given them. The report states he still had the money he allegedly took from the bank in his right jacket pocket. Matthews was taken into custody without incident. Lupo credited the officers for their quick, well-coordinated response. Anyone with additional information about this incident is asked to contact the Roswell Police Department at 770640-4100. Anonymous information can be provided through Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-8477 or online at StopCrimeATL.org.
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Isakson and Cleland knew their voters, and their kids’ names By TOM BAXTER SaportaReport The death of former U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, a little more than a month after the death of former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, brings this political year to a somber close. It’s tempting to say their passing marked the end of an era, but truthfully that era is already well behind us. If Parkinson’s disease had not forced Isakson to resign with two years left in his term, he would by now have faced the sternest test of his political career in the early days of January. He would have done the right thing. Just as certainly, he would have faced daunting challenges from inside and outside his party as next year’s elections approached. Understandably, the stories following Isakson’s death are going to linger on his good relations with Democrats, that poignant final embrace with John Lewis, the many stories of his working across party lines to get things done. Not enough is going to be said about how essential Isakson was to the rise of the Republican Party in Georgia. He was a rich guy with working-class roots, the son of a man who went from working on houses to selling them after World War II. He grew up in the business of selling people their dream homes. He could sound suburban in the suburbs, and down-homey down home, and never wavered from his focus on the sale, in his business or political career. All these were qualities the emerging Georgia Republican Party needed in the years when it struggled for a statewide breakthrough. “I try to win the battle, not the body count,” Isakson told Georgia Trend when inducted into their hall of fame. Nothing substantiates those words better than Isakson’s long relationship with Zell Miller. Isakson lost the 1990 governor’s race to Miller in a campaign so bruising it might have embittered another politician. He won that battle when Miller tapped him to head the state school board, reviving his political career, and again years later when Isakson succeeded Miller in the Senate, with Miller’s tacit help. Both Isakson and Cleland excelled at a style of personal politics that sadly appears to be passing with them. They knew
your kids’ names and asked about them. They went to a lot of funerals. They had a generational knowledge of a lot of Georgia families. There’s a conference room with a high wall at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas which has been festooned with plaques and mementos of every description, accumulated over years of lunch club speeches and local awards dinners by the late Kansas senator, who died earlier this month. Isakson and Cleland were of a similar tradition. It’s hard to practice this brand of politics when even shaking hands can be controversial. But voters need to meet the people they’re voting for face to face, and the best politicians thrive on those personal connections. Creating more opportunities for that to happen should be a big post-variant priority. Dole and Sen. Herman Talmadge were a model of bipartisanship when they served together on the Senate Agriculture Committee, collaborating on a lot of important farm legislation. It’s good to see Senate passage of a bill addressing the opioid crisis in rural communities co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. And it’s encouraging that Democrats like U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada can work with Tennessee Republican senators Marsha Backburn and Bill Hagerty on a bill to help live music venues affected by the pandemic. But the kind of unapologetically pragmatic bipartisanship Isakson called for in his farewell address to the Senate has been greatly marginalized since the days of Talmadge and Dole. “Most people who call people names and point fingers are people that don’t have a solution themselves, they just want to make damn sure you don’t solve it,” Isakson said in his farewell. The list of solutions he crafted as chair of the Ethics and Veterans Affairs committees is impressive, and his work for the state of Georgia over decades — not only what he accomplished, but the patient, personable way in which he did it — leaves a true legacy. This column was originally published on SaportaReport.com.
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plans for two new parks. High Street, Campus 244 and Ashford Lane will all add green space and amenities to the Perimeter area. Home to many Fortune 500 companies and businesses large and small, Perimeter Center plays an important role in the economic future of our city, region and state. We are launching a plan to create a blueprint to manage and guide future growth in the Perimeter area. Community engagement will be key, and there will be plenty of opportunities to share your vision through public meetings and interactive, online tools. We ended 2021 with news that international shipping company HapagLloyd announced plans to establish its new North American headquarters in Dunwoody. I look forward to additional announcements in 2022. More than two million dollars of federal CARES Act funding has been allocated to help local small businesses manage their challenges during the pandemic. We are working to make Dunwoody the best place to open and grow a small business, and we are making nurturing entrepreneurs a key focus of our economic recovery plan. City Council approved the remaining piece of the Dunwoody Village Master Plan in 2021. We are now seeing the very beginning of a revitalized commercial area. More public space enhancements and several new businesses are planned over the next year Dunwoody residents have been asking for more vibrant areas to gather, and we are working with our property owners to create spaces that allow for movement, socializing and lingering longer. I am looking forward to more shared community experiences and a defined sense of place.
The Dunwoody Art Commission has been busy unveiling our first public art pieces. Public art will also enhance our sense of place in Dunwoody. City Council continues to prioritize connectivity. We built 2 miles of sidewalks, several crosswalks and paved 18 lane miles. We worked on improving intersections and began designing new segments of the Dunwoody Trailway. These future trails will allow residents to safely walk or cycle from Winters Chapel to the Perimeter area. Additionally, I am working with mayors across the top end of I-285 to design a trail system that connects our communities. Speaking of I-285, the top-end managed lanes project will have a tremendous impact on our community. Gov. Kemp’s recent announcement about changes in funding for this project have led to delays in start dates and potential design changes. I will continue to work with City Council, staff and state officials to minimize the negative impacts of these lanes on our community, while maximizing opportunities for transit-related improvements to the project. Finally, we await the official rules for the funds provided to Dunwoody by the American Rescue Plan (ARP). These dollars are meant to help local governments, their citizens and their businesses recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic. I am so proud that City Council has previously approved over $600,000 dollars of CARES funding for nonprofits. These partners have provided food, housing, mental health services, job training and more for the most vulnerable residents in our community. We look forward to community discussions about ARP funds in the first half of the new year. We have so much going for us in Dunwoody, and I am grateful for our council’s leadership, our staff’s hard work and our residents’ support. I am optimistic that Dunwoody is well-positioned to continue to move forward and thrive in 2022.
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The Miles family of Lost Corner Preserve The home and property known today as Lost Corner Preserve at Dalrymple Road and Brandon Mill Road was previously owned by the Miles family. Margaret (Peggy) Miles shared the story of her family’s move to Sandy Springs and life on the property in “The Story of Dunwoody,” by Ethel W. Spruill and Elizabeth L. Davis. Nancy Hill Miles and Fred HarVALERIE rison Miles were feeling crowded in BIGGERSTAFF their neighborhood near Atlanta and wanted to move to the country. They purchased a farm from the McMurtrey family in north Fulton County in Sandy Springs. Nancy and Fred, along with 7-year-old Edward and 5-year-old Alice (called Totsey), moved in April of 1915. Fred Miles, Jr. was born in 1916, Peggy in 1922, and Henry in 1929. On the day of the move, Fred Miles worked half a day at his downtown job with Georgia Power, then rode the streetcar to meet his family in Buckhead. The family brought their possessions, including chickens, in a wagon pulled by a mule. They also brought their cow Betsy and her calf who walked behind the wagon. Betsy “had no time to chew her cud and meditate that day” as the family continued down Roswell Road. When they arrived at their farm, they found a log home consisting of one large room, two lean-tos and a chimney made of red mud and sticks. By fall of 1915, a
new home had been built on top of the old foundation. Their neighbors included the Mayfields, who lived east on Dalrymple Road. They were descendants of John Dalrymple. Janice Self and her son James also lived on part of the old Dalrymple farm. Another neighbor was Granny Mack McMurtrey and her granddaughter, part of the family that originally owned the Miles property. Granny Mack remembered the Creek and Cherokee living along the Chattahoochee River and across the creek behind the Dalrymple Place. Fred Miles and Hugh Spalding brought electricity to the farm with a line from the power plant at Morgan Falls. Spalding also ran a line to his summer home on the river. The children walked 3 miles through the woods to Morgan Falls School along Roswell Road. Camp meeting services at Sandy Springs Methodist Church were attended by the family. Later they became members of Dunwoody Methodist Church. They were instrumental in the organization of Sunday School programs at Dunwoody Methodist, and Edward Miles hand crafted furniture for the chapel. The farm became known as Lost Corner because people who came from the city seldom found it on their first try. Peggy Miles was living in the family home when she died in 2008. She had already made plans for the home and property to be preserved, and today Lost Corner Preserve is a Sandy Springs Park. The home place sits among nature trails and a community garden. The support of Friends of Lost Corner provides funding, community en-
The old home place at Lost Corner Preserve, built by the Miles family in 1915, stands to this day at Dalrymple Road and Brandon Mill Road. gagement, programming and volunteers. As Nancy Miles grew older, Peggy recalled that her mother would remind her each year, “when the whippoorwill calls and the oak leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear, it’s time to plant the corn and pay the taxes.” You can email Valerie at pasttensega@gmail.com or visit her website at pasttensega.com.
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Finding the Garden of Eden In early October, 2021, this writer and five other vaccinated travelers traveled in East Africa on a safari-oriented adventure dubbed “Tanzania Serento Zanzibar.” LEWIS J. WALKER, CFP geti “Safari” comes from the Arabic root verb, safara, meaning to unveil, hence to discover or to embark on a journey. Organized by American tour operator Tauck, the experience was rife with discovery, highlighted by spectacular wonders of nature and creation. Exploration started in Arusha in northern Tanzania, not far from Mt. Kilimanjaro. Traveling with a buddy from Lake Oconee, Ga., on day two we went hiking in the lushness of Arusha National Park. Accompanied by an armed ranger, we were surrounded by amazing scenery with wild animals in their natural element. Joining four other adventurers and our Tauck guides, on day three we traveled west toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Along the way we visited a remote Maasai village. The Maasai are semi-nomadic herders inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley. A tall and regal people, they are known for colorful dress and the belief that cattle represent wealth. Walking around the village, a Maasai warrior explained the benefits of various trees, bushes and other plants used for food, medicine and ornamentation. We go to the drug store, supermarket and Amazon. The Maasai are deeply in touch with nature. That was the first time I thought about the Garden of Eden where everything needed was in natural abundance. The floor of the Ngorongoro Crater is a relatively level 127-square-mile expanse situated 2,000 feet below the bowl-shaped rim of its steep-walled crater. It’s home to over 25,000 animals; herds of wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, impalas, Cape buffalo; hippos, elephants, lions, hyenas and other predators; exotic and colorful birds. As humans confined to our pop-up top vehicles, we were the ones in a cage of sorts. For early hunter-gatherer humans, Ngorongoro was a supermarket supreme! Further west lies Olduvai Gorge, a deep ravine, one of the foremost paleontology sites in the world. Annual rains and floods wash away layers of rock and soil to reveal fossils of long extinct beasts and hominids. Here the British team of Mary and Louis Leakey added to our knowledge of human development. Homo habilis first occupied the gorge about 1.9 million years ago (mya).
Homo eructus showed up 1.2 mya, while “late-arriving” Homo sapiens, emerging roughly 300,000 years ago, peopled the gorge 17,000 years ago. Listening to our guide outline time frames while overlooking the cut in the earth, the mysteries of creation and the power of God who transcends human time came to mind. Our trip continued into the 5,700-square-mile Serengeti National Park. The Maasai called it Siringet, meaning “endless plains.” The diverse landscape features grasslands, woodlands, exotic trees, bushes, hills, rivers, waterholes, marshes, rocky outcroppings as dens and havens for animals. To see with one’s eyes a vast expanse with myriad animals, birds and reptiles in their natural habitat surpasses anything viewed on film, television or the internet. The purity of the air, the wind and breezes, daytime heat, nighttime cooling as thunderstorms coming off of Lake Victoria rumble and reverberate across the plains, stunning sunsets and starry nights, add to the magnificence. Yes, there’s discomfort at times. Bouncing around on rutted dirt and rocky tracks, dust and tsetse flies in some locales, can be bothersome, but it’s worth it. October in the Serengeti is spring and you’ll see mothers with youngsters ─ baby elephants, monkeys, baboons, lions, hippos, giraffes, various antelope species, buffalo, wildebeests, warthogs, etc. The song from the movie “The Lion King,” “The Circle of Life,” comes to mind, along with thoughts about the Garden of Eden. Most Biblical scholars theorize that the Garden of Eden was in the Middle East, near where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are today. But a Garden of Eden of sorts easily could have been in the Great Rift Valley and the rich geographical diversity of that part of Africa. The Bible declares that when sin and disobedience entered into paradise, Adam and Eve were banned from the peaceful garden. There are places in Africa and elsewhere, including here at home, where it’s hazardous to venture. But consider yourself blessed if you have the wherewithal to travel to the wild and beautiful places on our planet to witness God’s artistry up close and personal. In your personal financial planning, that’s something to shoot for! Lewis Walker, CFP®, is a life centered financial planning strategist with Capital Insight Group; 770-441-3553; lewis@ lewwalker.com. Securities & advisory services offered through The Strategic Financial Alliance, Inc. (SFA). Lewis is a registered representative and investment adviser representative of SFA, otherwise unaffiliated with Capital Insight Group. He’s a Gallup Certified Clifton Strengths Coach and Certified Exit Planning Advisor.
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Review: Continued from Page 1 after a protracted battle involving the commercial property owners, the Dunwoody Homeowners Association, and the city. Another long-discussed project, the Georgetown Gateway Project, got underway in mid-summer, much to the chagrin of citizens in the surrounding area, who protested the loss of many trees along Chamblee Dunwoody Road. However, Dunwoody Parks and Recreation officials said plans had been in place to replace all the trees that were displaced by the construction. Dunwoody government The City Council, which had passed an austere 2021 budget, revised expenditures as income increased. It continued with a conservative approach to its 2022 forecast, introducing a $52.4 million budget that maintained a comfortable rainy-day fund and increased programs at a minimal level. The budget included a 5.8% pay increase for police personnel, an incentive designed to attract and retain quality employees. In March, the council kept the city’s long-time millage rate at 2.74, but DeKalb County’s 2021 property tax reassessment will mean higher taxes for most residential and commercial property owners.
The council also passed a sweeping sign ordinance in late summer after long discussions and several deferrals after input from local businesses. The new code will affect new businesses, or those business owners who modify their existing signage. DeKalb County Schools After a year of virtual learning, the DeKalb County School System re-opened to in-person attendance in March, with pandemic protocols in place, including masking and social distancing. Because of the pandemic, a significant number of parents withdrew their children for private school or home school options, resulting in a disparity in student-teacher ratios. In the spring, district officials introduced a plan to relocate teachers to other schools and districts, but the move was postponed after parents protested. In a surprise move in October, the school system consolidated classes at several schools in the Dunwoody area and moved teachers to new assignments in order to comply with federal student-to-teacher ratio standards. Parks purchases and controversies In April, the city purchased two tracts of privately owned land on Vermack Road, totaling about 9 acres, for development into a park. In addition, the city assumed control of about 10 acres that it acquired in a land swap that saw the relocation of two baseball fields from the
longtime Roberts Drive location to an area adjacent to Peachtree Middle School. Plans were to develop both tracts into parks, but the specifics of the suggested uses were greeted with a variety of opinions. The Roberts Drive property was slated for installation of basketball courts, a softball field and other community amenities, but neighbors said they opposed several elements suggested by the city, especially the softball fields. Neighbors say they are worried about lighting and additional traffic the softball fields would bring, and they want the park to reflect a more passive use, with open fields and playgrounds only. The issue has yet to be resolved as the city continues to solicit citizen feedback. The improvements may be financed by a parks bond referendum, which would have to be approved by voters. City Council shake-up The makeup of the City Council changed by the sudden resignation of District 1 Councilwoman Pam Tallmadge, who moved out of the city. Mayor Lynn Deutsch appointed Ardy Bastian to fill the seat until the November elections. Newcomer Catherine Lautenbacher defeated former Councilman Terry Nall for the seat. In somewhat of an upset, newcomer Rob Price defeated two-time incumbent Jim Riticher for the District 2 seat. Coun-
cilman Tom Lambert cruised comfortably over Brian Sims in District 3. Notable moves Tommy Marshall, a longtime coach and athletic director at Maris School, retired. Duane Waugh, a 1989 Marist alumni, assumed his post. Stage Door Players, which had seen its fair share of controversy after dismissing artistic director Robert Egizio in 2020, saw more changes as executive director Debbie Fuse retired. Justine Ball assumes her role in 2022. The organization also changed its name to Stage Door Theatre. Revered baseball coach and Dunwoody High School stalwart Tom Bass took over as principal at the school in September. Brooks Curry, a Dunwoody native and swimmer at Louisiana State University, won a position on the 2020 Olympic 4x100 freestyle swim team after a breakthrough performance at the U.S. Olympic trial in Nebraska in June. His team won the gold in Tokyo. Curry swam the second leg in the preliminaries at the competition, which secured his gold medal. In August, the city named a portion of I-285 after retired State Sen. Fran Millar. The owners of E. 48th Street Market on Jett Ferry Road, long a favorite of displaced Italian Americans, celebrated their 35th year of operation. Fr. Frances Egan, a police chaplain for the Dunwoody Police Department, died in November at the age of 86.
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How to fish in green pea soup Last time we got together here, you joined me for a little riverside chemistry lesson as my buddy Scott and I went fishing below Buford Dam on the Chattahoochee. The issue, you may STEVE HUDSON recall, is that when Get Outside Georgia, aa4bw@comcast.net we arrived, we found the river to be a bit off-color (okay, a lot off-color) with a distinct metallic, sulphur smell to boot. But that’s what happens in the midst of “turning over.” As it turned out, we still caught some fish. This week I want to take a few minutes to talk a bit about strategies for fishing under such potentially challenging conditions. Turnover is a seasonal thing in large reservoirs hereabouts, and it has a distinct impact (as in “slightly green” and “a little smelly”) on the part of any river that happens to be directly downstream of the reservoir in question. At its worst, it turns the river near the dam into watery green pea soup! On the day we were there, the visibility was just a foot or two, a far cry from the gin-clear water that’s the norm below Buford Dam. I was telling another friend about the experience, and he seemed surprised that we had met with any success at all. “What were you using?” he asked. “I’ve never done much good fishing be-
low the dam during turnover. It always seems like visibility is too low. What’s the secret?” I don’t know if it’s a secret or not, but I’m glad to let you know what was working! The trouble with turnover, as we’ve already noted, is that it makes the water murky. That makes it harder for predators to see prey, so what turned out to be the key for us that day was to go with flies (we were fly fishing) which were flashy, bright and easy for the fish to see. Under ordinary conditions on that part of the river at this time of year, I’d go with tiny imitations of “emerging” immature midges. These insects are maybe a quarter of an inch long. Heck, the flies that imitate them are so small that sometimes it’s hard for me to see them myself. When the water is clear, trout seem to have no trouble picking them out and gobbling them down with gusto. But what about when the water is murky, as it is near the dam during turnover? Flies such as the Zebra Midge are usually my patterns of choice when I’m trying to imitate midge emergers. I tend to prefer black or dark red versions of those flies. But under turnover conditions like we encountered the other day, I found that my relatively drab Zebra Midges were outperformed by patterns with a brighter body — say, for example, the bright and highly visible Rainbow Warrior. Another great choice proved to be Chattahoochee River guide Chris Scalley’s inimitable Blue Assas-
sin. Presumably, those brighter flies are easier for the trout to spot in murky water, and the result is more trout on the line. We had good luck with big flies, too, in particular a large pattern known as the Rubberlegs. This fly imitates stonefly nymphs, which are apparently among the favorite foods of trout. Several different colors can work under turnover conditions, but very light or very dark ones seemed to be the ticket. Presumably, the larger profile of those flies made them easy to see no matter what color was used. Another class of flies that has been working well under turnover conditions is streamers. These patterns, designed to imitate minnows, are fished with an active retrieve that mimics a minnow making its way through the current. Again, it seems that a part of their appeal is their size. Compared to a tiny midge emerger, a big streamer offers a super-sized meal and is easier for predators to spot even under less than optimum conditions. The most effective streamers for turnover have been those tied with bright materials such as silver flash or those with bright elements that contrast sharply with darker elements. Patterns such as the Rolex come to mind; so do the Lightning Bolt Streamer (a flashy pattern tied with lots of silver flash) or the one that they call the Hudson Streamer (a pattern that benefits from the white spots on dark guinea fowl feathers). Again, it appears to be a matter of visibility as these flashy and high-contrast flies are simply easier for
fish to see. That same line of thinking applies to spinning lures too. I spoke with two different spinning rod enthusiasts who told me that they do better during turnover with bright-colored inline spinners. Roostertails or Mepps spinners in light colors and with flashy silver or gold blades were mentioned by both anglers; one added that he’s also done well with white soft plastic curlytail grubs fitted to white jigheads. The jig-and-grub combos have the added advantage of sinking quickly, something which puts them near the bottom where the fish like to hang out. These bright flies and lures seem to work best if there’s some sun on the water. But what if there’s a heavy overcast or if it’s late in the day and the light is fading? In that case, some upper tailwater turnover anglers take a page from the bass angler’s notebook and go with darker-colored lures or flies. That stands to reason, for under dim conditions it becomes a matter of presenting a visible profile. Try a dark fly or lure, maybe even one with an orange-andbrown-and-red color scheme to imitate a baby brown trout. If you’re fly fishing, consider a Rolex-style fly tied with dark purple or black material. Sometimes it can work very well. Once turnover is over and the uppermost tailwater returns to its usual clarity, I’ll be back to using everything in my tailwater box. For the next few weeks, though, I’ll start with something bright and see how it goes. I hope that strategy will pay off for you too!
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A (true) Christmas Story: 1946 Dec. 22, 2005 Much of Europe was in shambles at the end of World War II. Food was scarce, heating and gasoline were rare commodities, and many were without shelter. After the war, RAY APPEN America helped rePublisher Emeritus ray@appenmediagroup.com build Europe under the Marshall Plan. Hundreds of American companies were contracted to participate in the rebuilding efforts overseas – including the one involved in this account, J.A. Jones Construction Company, then based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, with concerns in, among other places, Poland. On the particular night in point, an engineer was working late. His company’s contract was one of the largest in their history and the assignment to get the job done on time had been given to a hard-driving German immigrant with a reputation for meeting deadlines. The engineer had already successfully led the company’s Liberty ship building efforts in Panama City in
Editor’s Note This column first ran Christmas of 2005. We have reprinted it a few times since then and are choosing to do so again this year. Enjoy this reprieve and take yourself back to Christmas in 1946. 1942 that reduced the amount of time required to build a Liberty ship from 134 days to 41. He had also helped guide the company’s efforts in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on the Manhattan Project – which ultimately produced the atomic bombs that ended the war. But now he was behind schedule, which was not OK. It was Christmas Eve 1946, somewhere in postwar Poland. The engineer was working into the night to find a way to catch up. At home about 25 kilometers away, the engineer’s wife and two young children waited. Snow fell outside. It was bitterly cold. The children played near a fire. The engineer labored over blueprints and concentrated. Crews, equipment, supplies of petrol and steel and transportations problems
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reeled through his mind as he worked out a plan. He had responsibilities and a job to do. A noise outside the office distracted him. The cleaning “staff,” which consisted of a boy from the village, moved about the office. The “boy,” as the engineer thought of him, was actually a German war refugee in his early 20s with a young family. The engineer had created the cleaning job for him to try to help. Jobs were scarce in Poland in 1946, but so was money. The night before, the boy had not finished the cleaning and had been reprimanded. “Don’t forget the last offices on the right and don’t go home until everything is finished,” the engineer had said. He didn’t have time to manage a cleaning boy when he had deadlines to meet for a major construction project. And he wouldn’t accept unfinished work – no matter how small. Priorities, for the engineer, were always clear. Time passed. Europe was rebuilt. Three or four wars passed – depending on how you count them. Fast-forward 46 years. I answered the phone at my home in Alpharetta. It was December 1992. A voice, which I recognized as belonging to an old man, asked to speak with Mr. Appen. “Speaking,” I replied. The voice continued. “I apologize for calling but ‘just in case,’ I did. I saw your name in the phone directory and are you possibly related to H.V. Appen?” he asked. “Yes,” I answered. “He was my grandfather.” I heard a sigh on the other end of the phone and then there was a long silence. My senses were on edge, and I could not imagine what this call could possibly be about. H.V. had lived larger than life to me and still does. This call was so soon after
his death. The voice on the other end of the phone continued. “I knew your grandfather a long time ago. In Poland. Not a week goes by that I don’t think of him and finding you in the phone book is more than I can believe.” His voice broke and grew softer. “You see, on Christmas Eve 1946, I was working for your grandfather and he called me into his office. I thought that he was going to fire me because I had not finished the job the previous day. He was a hard man to work for, you know. He told me to go get his car and to drive. I didn’t know what to think and I was frightened,” he said. The man continued. “That night, your grandfather took me out and bought Christmas presents for me and my entire family. At the time, we had absolutely nothing. We were not even going to have a Christmas dinner. He bought that, too. We drove back to my house and he dropped me off. It was a Christmas that I will never forget as long as I live. So, when I saw your name in the phone directory, I just had to call you. I am so happy to be able to tell you how grateful I am to your grandfather.” We spoke for a few more minutes then hung up. In silence I replayed the conversation in my mind – several times, and then smiled. “How grateful I am to you,” I thought. “What a priceless Christmas gift you have just given me.” Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all. Ray Appen, Publisher. In memory of my grandfather, H.V. Appen, who always kept his priorities straight.
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